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who started it all... with a signature. legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses, turning dreamers into business owners. and we're here to help start yours. life with the taliban. new details emerge about bowe bergdahl's life in captivity. reports he was kept in a box at times. also reports on his current mental state. the fbi is investigating threats against his family. >> i remain increasingly convinced from everything we have been presented that these five individuals that have been released will soon return to the fight against america. >> can qatar be trusted? the detainees exchanged for bergdahl will live there for a year, but how closely will they be watched and what happeneds after a year?
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undoumpted, underaged and now an uncertain future for00offs children in arizona caught in an ongoing battle over what to do about immigration reform. >> it was what we need to do to restore american leadership. >> hillary clinton sheds right on when she'll shed light on running for presidential. plus, how she feels about taking her time could mean for other candidates. >> and headed to a do-good location to volunteer. i'm craig. moments ago, we just got an update from doctors in new jersey. they say comedian tracy morgan is still in critical condition a day and a half after that horrific crash on the new jersey turnpike. a tractor trailer slammed into the back of his limo bus, killing one of the passengers and leaving three others, including morgan in critical
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condition. the driver of that truck, 35-year-old kevin roper is charged with one charge of death by auto and four counts of asaument by auto. he's currently held on bail. walmart released this statement saying, quote, the facts are continuing to unfold. if it's determined our truck caused the accident, walmart will take full responsibility. 63-year-old james mcnair, who performed on stage as jimmy mac, died in that crash. he was a close front of tracy morgan's. meanwhile, the driver of the limo bus described the crash. >> it was unreal. i mean, i didn't know what happened. i mean, shattering glass and things like that. it all happened so fast. >> ron allen is live for us at the hospital. ron, what more do we know about tracy morgan's condition at this hour?
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>> not much more, craig, unfortunately. and everybody wants to know, but there's been very little information from the hospital about exactly what his injuries are, what treatment he's undergoing. there was a quote from his wife, ex-wife sabrina, to a local newspaper saying he's not in good shape. what that really means we just don't know. we're into the second day of this, and all we're hearing is critical condition in the icu along with two other passengers in the car. it does not sound good. but again, we don't know the specifics. the details of the accident are just horrific. you played some sound of the driver describing what happened. essentially, they were sitting there in traffic, stopped, and out of nowhere, with no warning, apparently, the track slams into the back of the limousine. they were at a performance in delaware, coming up the jersey turnpike, when this happens at 1:00 in the morning. in the darkness, there was a frantic effort to rescue the
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people inside the limousine. they pulled out morgan and one other, they're medvacs to the hospital. there's debris, damage all over the highway. closed down for at least five hours. just a massive accident. so that's where we are this afternoon. just everyone, from the entertainment community, fans, friends, family, wanting to know more about morgan's condition. >> what's next with the ntsb investigation? >> well, they're here helping out the new jersey investigators because this is an accident that involves trucks and limousines and a major highway. that's why the ntsb is here. they're obviously going to try and find out more about what happened. we know and it was quickly determined by the police that this man, kevin roper, is behind the accident. police say he apparently did not notice there was traffic ahead of him, that had slowed down. at the end, when he did notice it, he tried to swerve his truck out of the way, allegedly, but
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he hit the back of the car. whether he dozed off or was distracted, we don't know. we hear he's expected to be in court in new jersey to face the assault and murder charges. >> ron, thank you. we'll check back in with you for updates throughout the afternoon. we're also learning much more today about sergeant bowe bergdahl. there are stark new reports about his nearly five years in captivity. sources confirm to nbc news that sergeant bergdahl was kept in a box like structure for a period of time by his taliban captors. he also still has not spoken to his family, all of this more than a week after his release. let's get to kristen welker who is standing by at the white house. what more do we know? >> his recovery process is taking a somewhat long time. he seems to be in fairly good physical condition by all accounts, but he also seems to be struggling emotionally, as you said, he's not yet ready to
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speak to his parents, and medics are going to wait until he's absolutely ready to do that before making that happen. we're learning more about what happened to him while he was in captivity, craig, in addition to what you happened, the fact he was held in that box for a period of time. according to the associated press, he was beaten and tort e tortured after he tried to escape. nbc news has not yet confirmed that, but again, this is by all accounts going to be a fairly long recovery process. doctors saying it's really up to him, when he's ready to talk to his parents, when he's ready to come back to the u.s. his recovery continues as the debate continues to rage here in washington. key lawmakers debating the prisoner swap today on the sunday talk shows. republicans coming forward and saying the prisoner swap could endanger the united states. mike rogers saying he believes at least three of those five
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released taliban members could re-enter the afghan war. secretary of state john kerry saying even if that happens, the u.s. is prepared to deal with it. secretary kerry calling those who are saying that american soldiers could be put in more harm's way, secretary kerry says that is malou baloney. the debate continues to rage on. >> maenl, we're hearing there have been some threats to bergdahl's family. is that right? >> well, an official with the fbi says that they are aware of tletsz that have been made to sergeant bergdahl's family. they are working with local officials to investigate those threats, craig, but we're told they're taking them very seriously. in terms of the exact nature of the threats, what the specific threats are, the fbi not releasing that information, but again, they're taking those reports very seriously and trying to get to the bottom of it.
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>> kristen welcoker at the whit house. thanks as always. >> one point of debate in the sergeant bergdahl case continues to be the deal to release five taliban prisoners in exchange for bergdahl. they're now in qatar will they will remain for at least a year, we're told. how much should america trust qatar to make good on their end of their deal? the qatary government has given the united states assurances they will monitor the men, but there are fresh concerns this afternoon over that promise. here's john kerry defending the move on cnn this morning. >> we know we have the ability to be able to deal with people who want to threaten americans who threaten the united states. if that what they go back on their word to do, if the qatarys dont do what they said they would do, we have any number of avenues to do that. >> eli is the senior national security counsel for the daily beast.
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it sounds like secretary kerry is talking about jones, no? >> it sound lis it he said if t wanted to return to the baclefield, the u.s. had the ability to kill them. he didn't quite say that. he also said he acknowledged something in my piece last week which is that the united states will have the ability to monitor them. but as i recoported, that is at the agreement of the qatary service. and historically, cooperation with the qua taatary service han very problematic. in 2008, at the end of the administration, the bush administration released a qatary citizen to qatar. he was not supposed to leave qatar, and within five months, he was in the united kingdom giving a kind of publicity tour, and it was seen, according to wikileaks documents and my sources as a direct violation of the agreement.
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>> how was it that this tiny country came to become the middleman of sorts? how was it that qatar decided to help broker this deal? >> in some ways, qatar has positioned itself very much in between the united states on the one hand and the kind of rising tide of islamists on the other hand. it's very easy in qatar and it's been the treasury department and state department have documented this for years to raise money for jihadist organizations including al qaeda. as recently as december, a very prominent human rights activist and history professor was designated by the department as a chief financier for three of al qaeda's groups. but that said, the qataryvise a close relationship with the u.s. military. they allow for the forward headquarters of central command to be based in qatar as well as
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a kind of combined air command there. there's a lot of u.s. military and u.s. military hardware in qatar. in that sense, they're in a unique position where they have a long-standing position with the united states military. at there same time, they have seen as an honest broker by some of the groups including the taliban, which has had an office in doha, which has been on and off, but they have been allowed to have a political office there. >> how are the terms and circumstances of the original agreement, eli, how are those terms and circumstances different from this final agreement? >> you mean when they originally started talking about bergdahl? >> yes. >> for one, originally, the idea was that you would release two of these taliban figures. you would wait 60 days, you would release another. there would be more of a staggered release of the
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individuals. i think this time around, there are more kind of -- more mechanisms to monitor them once they've been released so there is this one year period where they're not allowed to travel, and those kinds of terms did not exist before. the other big difference is that when this was originally brought up, i think when it became a serious negotiation in 2011 and 2012, this was part of a wider, larger paubross for the taliban start negotiations with the karzai government and the afghan government to end the war there. and that is not part of this deal. this is just a prisoner swap. in that sense, it's much less ambitious. the united states has gotten a lot less than what it hoped to get for the taliban five. >> why is that? >> i think part of it is because president obama has decided whatever happens, the united states is going to leave afghanistan by the end of his
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presidency. and they are now talking about the idea of going for afghanistan good enough. so gone are the broader ambitions of having competent security center and the beginning of a civil society, girls schools, et cetera, that you saw with the first term of obama when he supported a serge of troops, and now it's trying to tie up the loose ends and end america's longest war which will not be terribly satisfying from the perspective of a lot of americans who fought it. that's really where the anger is coming from on the bergdahl deal. nobody would argue, or no one sear rious would argue you shouldn't do anything you can to get a prisoner of war, but there are people, and the question is what are you willing to give up? what is that going to leave, you know, how is afghanistan going to be left? a lot of americans fought hard in afghanistan to try to make sure they would never host al
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qaeda again. i don't think that knnd could really say at this point that at least there's not a good chance that al qaeda will have a safe haven once the americans leave at the end of his term. >> eli, thank you. up next, hillary clinton's hard choices. the new memoir comes out tuesday. for some folks who have gotten an early look, it's begging the question, is it a precursor for the 2016 run. we'll hear the latest from clinton herself and hear from insiders to get the inside scoop. stick with innovation.
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come as early as next year. >> i will be on the way poomaking a decision by the end of the year, yes. >> but probably not announced until next year? >> i'm not positive about that, but i think, you know, the way i make decisions, that's probably likely. >> is the party frozen in place waiting for you? >> no, i mean, no. people can do whatever they choose to do on whatever time table they decide. >> sure, they can. kiki maclaine, democratic strategist, was a hillary clinton for president senior adviser in 2008. now volunteering on the roll-out of clinton's book, and also a democratic strategist, former adviser to the 2008 hillary clinton for president campaign. good to see both of you. >> good to see you. >> what is this book tour about, shoot it straight? >> it's about a book. it's about a book called "hard choices." that's what it is. people are fascinated with the
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history hillary clinton has been a part of. this documents what she experienced as secretary of state. the kind of decisions that had to be made. what it was like to go from being a team of rivals in the early days of the obama administration and in the end really a team that is unrivaled by the end of her tenure as secretary of state, and the work they did all around this world. it's been pretty amazing, and i think people are excited and curious to read it. >> hillary clinton described some disagreements with president obama. according to politico, she writes, quote, others will remain private to honor the cone of confidengsality that should exist between a president and his secretary of state, especially when he's still in office. how will this cone, how will it affect the potential questions she'll get about her tenure down the road? >> she's going to get those questions no matter what, but it's absolutely right. you keep the confidences of the
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administration when you serve on the cabinet. particularly in a sensitive job like secretary of state. i think this book is going to be fascinating to remind people america is still the indispensable nation of the world. when you think about when hillaryclipten came in as secretary of state, america had lost some respect in the world. and she helped bring america back to a position of leadership, and it really matters. i think when you understand the importance of that role as secretary of state to be part of american leadership, because of that, for example, she helped build a coalition to keep riran from getting a nuclear bond. because of the work of the segitary of state. it's something you forget about that goes on behind the scenes, but it really does matter to people's lives here in america. that to me is what the book is all about. learning of the importance of that.
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>> kiki, is it true that folks who are looking for something salacious or exciting, some sort of nugget that this is not the kind of book for that? this is a pretty safe recount or account, rather, of her time. >> you know, craig, if you start with her author's notes which became bublic weeks ago, she talked about she really wanted to share what the hard choices was. she didn't say this was about a day at the beach or settling scores. >> not a tell-all. >> and the reality is there may be a small, small group of americans particularly maybe in the media who are hoping for a little of that, i think what most americans want to know and are curious about are what is that job and what was happening around the world and what was happening behind the scenes when we read about it and how did you make that dhois and that decision, and how did you and the president and this administration work us back into
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this place we are today which is a much stronger place than when they began in 2009. >> there's a poll out, i found part of it interesting, this new washington post/abc news poll, where democrats were asked if they thought hillary clinton should run unopposed for the nomination, should she decide to run. here are the results on the screen. 55 persh of democrats think she should have some sort of opposition. that would seem to suggest that democratic voters do not want to see some coronation, doug. >> sounds like democrats to me. we have always had rambunctious primaries in the democratic party, and absolutely, hillary clinton deciding whether or not to run for president is not freezing the field, as you people say, in my opinion. plenty of people are thinking of running for president. now they're testing the waters. that's the way it should be. >> who's out legitimately teshing the waters right now?
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kiki, go ahead. >> if i start talking about people, it's going to sound like i'm pushing people. kiki, go ahead. >> no, no, i think there are a lot of strong democrats who could chose to run for president, and people are interesting in them. people are interested in what governor o'malley is up to. there are people who look at senator jillgill aggranbrand an klobuchar. >> who is testing the waters? >> everybody kiki said and others. people are out giving speeches. i would call that -- and i think it's pretty open. people say he's somebody that people are thinking about running or he's thinking about running. that's the way it should be. we're a democratic party in a democratic society. people are free to run for president. i don't think people who are really interested in that are going to sit on their hands. i think they are going to go out
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and explore. i'm not surprised that democrats want to hear from people, absolutely. >> doug and kiki, always a pleasure. thank you so much. >> thanks. >> we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] how did red lobster make four amazing entrees even better? with lobster! don't miss our first ever lobster toppers event! 4 delicious entrees topped with sweet, succulent maine lobster starting at just $15.99! like savory new wood-grilled shrimp topped with maine lobster in a citrus hollandaise... or the new ultimate: lobster-topped lobster -- 3 split maine lobster tails topped with maine lobster in a creamy white wine sauce! four choices, for a limited time, starting at just $15.99! everything's better with lobster! come in now, and sea food differently.
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here's a quick look at some of the other headlines. family members of passengers of the malaysia airlines flight 370 are trying to raise about $5 million. they want to use that many for a reward and private investigation to find out what happened to the jet and passengers onboard. meanwhile, a manhunt is under way in quebec for three prisoners who escaped from prison using a helicopter. the helicopt eer swoop said int the prison's court yard. thas the second time a helicopter has been used in a prison breakout. >> baltimore, that city is planning to roll out one of the strictest curfews for teenagers in the country. >> plus, an uncertain future for hundreds of children in zine zone. they're undocumented, unaccompanies and housed in terrible conditions.
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unitedhealthcare. is doing the best and most kind and humane thing with the children. >> that was the mayor of arizona talking about what some are calling a humanitarian crisis. more than 700 immigrant children are now being held at a detention center in that city. by the end of the day, at least 300 more children are expected to arrive. there were reports that chirp were sleeping in plastic containers under foil blankets, and some of those children had not showered for at least ten days. now the state is rushing supplies into that facility. according to the arizona daily star, the facility is a refurbished warehouse with no indoor plumbing. portable toilets and showers were brought in yesterday. mark potter has an update on the
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situation in nogales. >> we're outside the border station in nogales, about a mile north of the mexican border. inside, 764 unaccompanied children are being kept in a refurbished warehouse. living on cots, and with showers being brought in now. changes are being made in the living conditions for the better. it's been a little rugged in the beginning, but we're told changes are being made. they were picked up recently crossing the border recently in south texas. part of that surge of central americans we're seeing there, now that the white house is calling a humanitarian crisis. since october, more than 47,000 unaccompanied children had been picked up along the border and officials fear the number could grow, maybe even double by the end of the year as more people flee the violence and poverty in central america, or in the case of the children, many trying to come to the united states to
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join their parents or other family members who are already here. the challenge, of course, is where to pult all these kids until they are processed by immigration officials. some of them are actually being placed in military bases now. mexican children who are apprehended can be pushed back to mexico immediately, but central american kids needs to go through an immigration process which can take a long time. the federal government is bringing in relief supplies, the state is supplying vaccines for the kids. we're told the average age of the children is between 12, 13, 14, but some aras young as 8, and we're told more kids will be coming in here today as officials just try to get their hands around this crisis at the border that shows no signs of letting up. back to you. >> mark palter for us in arizona. we turn to the city of baltimore, like other major urban american cities, baltimore is riding a wave of growing crime. since the beginning of this year, there have been more than 2400 burglaries in baltimore,
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121 shootings, and 79 murders. those numbers are down from a year ago. police say it's way too high. now, city lawmakers are trying to clamp down by enacting one of the nation's strictest curfews for young people. once they're assigned into law, starting later this summer, children under 14 will have to be in the house by 9:00. teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16 will have fobow in the house by 10:00 on the week noits and 11:00 on the weekends. if they're caught in the streets, they'll be taking to these so-called youth connection centers and the whole thing will be fined. they're drawen criticism from public safety residents and residents as well. mayor, good to see you. i understand you had not signed this into law.
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when do you expect to do that. it passed through the counsel on the final reader. i do intend to sign it. while it's facing a lot of criticism, out on the street, there's not a person who comes up to me that has supported it. people have stopped their cars to give me the thumbs up. this is common sense legislation that people know we need in baltimore. >> the aclu disagrees. this is a big opening for things like stop and frisk. cops can stop any young person for walking on the street at night. how do you stop people who say this will add more children to an already crowded criminal justice system instead of combatting crimes like homicide and armed robbery? >> the aclu would have been more constructive and productive if they had participated in the public hearing process. they show up at the 11th hour with these protests when there was a public process, and they could have been heard during that and had their concerned been addressed. they show up.
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they come alt the last minute. the counsel had a robust decision and came up with a common sense decision. >> you don't think this could lead to 14, 15-year-olds being stopped for no reason? >> the kids are transported in like youth vans, like rec and parks vans to the curfew center or youth connection center. they wait there for their parents or a responsible adult. i don't know of a single arrest that happened out of the curfew center. this is about connecting vuln vulnerable young people with responsible adults. i say vulnerable because they're at risk and well as victims. they can stop falling through the cracking and get them the help they need. are any of the youth connection centers at city jails? >> absolutely not.
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>> they're going out and getting into trouble. are you going to look at your watch? because it's after 10:00. is this really going to stop teenagers from committing crimes in baltimore? >> i'm about protecting young people, and we know after a certain time that our young people need to be at home. it's common sense. it doesn't matter what community if it's affluent area or a challenged area, white, black, others. paurnlts and community members think this is a great idea. it's a useful tool. kids aren't being put in jail. they're being put off the
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street, safe until an adult can be with them. this is during the school year, they have the early curfew. it's a little later in the summer. kids know this curfew is in place and around midnight when you have the older kids in the summer. 1 11:50, 11:55, they start coming home where they should be. >> baltimore mayor, our pleasure as always. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> overseas, pope francis welcoming israeli and palestinian president at the vatican for an evening of peace prayers. truey an historic sight with all three men sitting next to each other. he invited them to play together. they made good on that promise. we're joined live. >> both the pope and the vatican are being pretty realistic about the power of this invokascationr these, as they called it. a couple days ago, the
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custoedian of the holy land said nobody expects peace to break out overnight, but the pope wants to, with this prayer, he wants to galvanize the people so put pressure on the authorities of the palestinian territories, and israel, to restart the peace process which right now is at a stalemate, especially after the u.s.-led negotiations and israel recently announced the construction of new housing and settlements in the occupied territories. during the speech, the pope delivered in the vatican gardens ability 15 minutes ago, he said, and let me read it to you, it is my hope that this meeting will mark the beginning of a new journey where we seek the things we unite so as to overcome the things that twied. he's telling the two presidents of the palestinian authority and israel to find common ground and what's best than the neutral
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people can get to work and not have fears about it. we try to do a variety of things to do something new. we worked at homeless shelters, at food banks, at animal shelters, school gardening, murals at schools, a bit of everything. >> do you booze it up before or after? >> sometimes a little bit after the volunteering as a reward. it's nice to have a cold beer, so we do the fun part on the way home. >> where are you again? >> we're in los angeles. and it's been great. los angeles is a place where it's hard to connect and people want that. and it's a great way to put like minded people on a bus and have fun. it's appreciated as well because people are ready to wurb. they're like-minded people and the causes have been
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appreciated. we love to spread the good across the country. >> rebecca, co founder of the do-good bus. it's today's big idea. a good idea to keep it up. >> thank you for having me. >> let us know about it. what's the big idea. you can also shoot us an e-mail as well. you can shoot us an e-mail as well. time to flashback now. it was 40 years go today that we learned the answer to this question. who are you going to call? that's when ghostbusters was released. this is part of gene shalit's
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book, and it's called "big money." $2.5 million, a vehicle, and a pimp. he describes how he managed to infiltrate a koch brothers conference in 2012. it included presentations from experts on a range of subjects, how to recruit and train candidates who adhere to the kochs' small government anti-regulation philosophy. ken is with me. always good to see you. you say mega donors reshaping the political world as we know it. how so, and who are they? >> well, that was the question i wanted to answer in the book. they are reshaping politics because they're spending. their new levels of spendings which were made possible by the
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2010 supreme court and lower court decisions that pave the way for money and politics has changed the types of candidates and who gets a chance to be out there as a candidate. i wanted to answer the question, what is driving them, what motivates them, and who they are. there's a lot of mystery around that. i found a number of motivations and a number of characters, some of whose names are known like the koch brothers, like george sorose, others who are coming up and are the next big thing in donors like the houston trial lawyers, amber and steve mausten, this is my effort to describe who they are and what drives them. >> i want to pick up what you said about the motivations, what drive these folks who have inconceivable amounts of money. is it puree idealogical motivations or something else at work? >> there's a mix. i think it's sort of an easy
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stereotype that a lot of folks who are critical of this say what's driving them is they want to spend money to get candidates and policies passed that will help their bottom lines. i found a lot of passion and frankly a lot of ego. i compare it to the folks who are really roughly and have bought all the vacation homes and all the yachts and all the -- put their names on all the hospital wings they can think of. they go ahead and they're big sports fans so they buy a sports team for a hundred million dollars and they think because they have been so successful at whatever their chosen field is, that their aptitude can apply to sports. they go and tell the gm who to draft, which quarterback to draft. they tell the coach which plays to call for the quarterback. you see some of the impulse with some of these mega donors who are spectacularly successful and huge political junkies and
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really care about politics. they think they know how their money can be spent. a lot of times we see a backlash, that the expertise is not transferrable from business to politics or from business to sports. >> quickly, you have this interesting anecdote about the report, you got an interview with david koch and he told you he supported same-sex marriage and thought taxes would eventually have to be raised to balance the budget. if that's true, why, then, hasn't he put his money where his mouth is? >> we saw a lot oftinati tensio coke world where there are folks where certainly the gay marriage and other things he told me were traditional hard-line libb libertarian stances, yet you also have this fellow from the republican party, and they think there's no way to elect real
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traditional republicans in favor of same sex marriage but opposed to taxation, so they have to kind of side with republicans, but there's a paul between the libertarian impulse and the republican impulse. >> good to see you. the title is a bit curious to me, one suspicious vehicle, 2.5 million dollars and a pimp. who's the pimp? >> a guy who was hired to do security for the democratic governor's association. so much of the book is my effort to get into some of these closed door, secret money confabs. i did get into one at this mansion on the outskirts of charlotte, north carolina, where there are a bunch of democratic governors, tuxedo clad workers serving hors d'oeuvres. the guy who kicked me out was a rogue ex-cop who got kicked off the police force for running a prosttushz ring out of his cop car, so he was the guy who was
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doing security, and it was interesting he was preaching to me about how it was bad for me to be violating the privacy of these very wealthy donors and these democratic governors when he had this background of matchmaking, if you will, of folks in secret liaisons. >> always good to see you. coming up in the next hour, political flip-flopping over bowe bergdahl. deleted tweets have surfaced. they tell a much different story. we'll tell you what is next for bug doll. stay with us. if you have a business idea, we have a personalized legal solution that's right for you. with easy step-by-step guidance, we're here to help you turn your dream into a reality. start your business today with legalzoom. little things, anyone can do. it steals your memories. your independence. insures support. a breakthrough. and sooner than you'd like...
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his first question was "did you have chickenpox?" i didn't even really know what shingles was. i thought it was something that, you know, old people got. i didn't want to have clothes on. i didn't want to have clothes off. if someone asked me "let's go dancing" that would have been impossible. life in captivity. we're learning more about bowe bergdahl's five years with the taliban. reports he was locked in a box. also, word this afternoon that he still has not spoken to his family. plus, caught in a political tug of war. hundreds of undocumented children in arizona are now in the middle of an ongoing battle over immigration reform in
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america. and a day devoted to dad. we're not talking about father's day just yet. it's next weekend, but the white house is hosting a special summit for working dads tomorrow. we'll talk to one of the guest speakers. plus, the first family of pot, not your typical business success story. i'll talk to the man in charge about how the family's recipe is cooking up a whole lot of green in colorado and we'll look at how the great pot experiment in colorado is doing six months later. in the last few moments, we have gotten new details on sergeant bowe bergdahl, defense sources now tell nbc news that sergeant bergdahl is in, quote, good enough physical condition to return to the united states. but, the sources add that he's not ready psychologically or emotionally, so that means he's going to remain at an american military hospital in germany for treatment, at least for now. we also know more about his five
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years in captivity. kristen has been following all of this for us. first, let's start with these new reports from defense sources that he's good enough to return home. but at this point, still no word on when that might happen, correct? >> no word on when that might happen. and defense officials saying that's really up to sergeant bergdahl, when he is ready to reach out to his parents, when he's ready to return back to the united states. he's thrill a big question mark around that. jim miklaszewski and courtney have been working their sources, getting new reporting on what happened to him during these five years, including at one reported attempt to escape, a defense official says it's not clear whether he was seld in a small cell or a box, but he was apparently confined. they're also reporting as for the allegations he may have been tortured, a defense official says he was clearly treated more
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harshly at some times but it's not clear that rose to the level of torture, and that defense official not giving specifics about what that means, more harshly. again, sergeant bergdahl continues to recover. officials saying he is not yet ready to call his parents. this all comes as the debate over the prisoner swap continues to rage on here in washington. lawmakers took to the sunday shows to debate this issue. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers saying he believes at least thirty-two ree of thosd taliban members will return to the afghan war. he's basing that on some of his intellgents. sectar of state john kerry saying it's possible they might return to the afghan war but the united states is prepared to deal with them if that should happen. as for allegations that ultimately releasing those five detainees could put american soldiers at greater risk,
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secretary kerry calls that bubonely. sectar of defense chuck hagel, by the way, will be testifying about all of this on capitol hill on wednesday. president obama just back from europe hoping to pivot back to his domestic agenda but craig, this will undoubtedly dominate the discussion. one more point is the fbi is investigating reports of death threats that sargeened bergdahl's family has been getting. they say they're taking those reports very seriously, working with local law enforcement officials to get to the bottom of it. >> really quickly, we were talking this time last sunday, there was, of course, that rose garden news conference that the president held, flanked by bergdahl's parents. any sense that the administration regrets the way that some of this was rolled out, at least. do they regret at all the optics of some of this? >> well, if you ask that question, they say no. having said that, craig, they
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also acknowledge they weren't prepared for the strong backlash you're seeing against sargeened bergdahl himself. you have some of his former army members coming forward saying that as many as six soldiers may have died searching for him. you have, again, other people coming forward with death threats and then of course you have lawmakers on capitol hill questioning his service. some even saying that we know enough now to actually punish him, to call him a dezwaurter. the defense department is saying it's important to hold off on rendering judgment because they're in the process of investigating why he walked off his base. of course, that is what led to his capture five years ago. >> kristen welker for us at the white house on this sunday afternoon. thank you. more now on a developing story that we have been following here at msnbc. right now, actor/comedian tracy morgan remains in critical
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condition at a hospital in new jers jersey. a tractor trailer slammed into the back of morgan's limo bus, killing one of the passengers and leaving three others, including morgan, in critical condition, according to a preliminary investigation by the new jersey state police, the driver of a walmart truck didn't observe slow traffic ahead of him and then swerved and hit morgan's limo, causing it to overturn. the driver of that truck, 35-year-old kevin roper, has been charged with one count of death pie auto and four counts of assault by auto. he's held on $50,000 bail. walmart released this statement saying, quote, there faths are continuing to unfold. if it's determined our truck caused the accident, walmart will take full responsibility. 63-year-old james mcnair who performs at jimmy mack on stage, died in that crash. he was a close friend of tracy morgan's, we're told. the driver of the limo bus
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described that crash. >> it was unreal. i mean, i didn't know what happened. shattering glass and things like that. just it all happened so fast. >> nbc's ron allen live for us at the hospital. what more did the driver of that limo bus have to say? >> well, craig, they were apparently stopped in traffic or moving very slowly. he says without warning, suddenly, this truck plowed into the back of the van. they're on the new jersey tu turnpike. this is one of the busiest roads in new jersey. it's 1:30 in the morning. they're on their way back from delaware after a performance at a delaware casino. without warning, there's a horrific crash. a chaotic scene with the passengers, the drivers who were not hurt trying to rescue the
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passengers out of the vehicle and others were coming to help them. morgan and one other passenger were air lifted to the hospital where they're still in critical condition. we have gotten precious few details about morgan's condition, his injuries, the treatment he's receiving. we heard scattered reports, a quote from his ex-wife saying he's not in good shape. but we don't know what his condition is beyond critqual. a lot of people want to know in the entertainment community, fans, family, friends, everybody maintaining this vigil to understand more about what his condition is. this happened about 1:00 a.m. saturday morning. to this hour, we're still hoping we get more details so we can give some indication of how he's doing as the vigil continues for tracy morgan. >> but to clarify here, he's been in critical condition since that accident, correct? >> exactly, craig, yes. in the intensive care unit here, but again, what that means, whether he's progressing or whether he's not, we don't know.
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and so we're left to sort of sort through scattered reports in the media, unconfirmed that people seem to be whispering about what he's doing or how he's not doing. we can't tell from all that. anything more beyond critical condition, which of course means he's fighting for his life. the hospital has been very quiet. we were hoping to hear more from his agent. yesterday, his agent said his condition was not expected to change. and we thought we would hear more today, but with the absence of information, of course, people are fearful about what might be happening with him. >> sure, ron allen for us outside the hospital in new jersey. thanks for the update. we'll come back to you later. >> finding that balance. striking that precious balance between work and family. for dads. the white house is focusing on just that tomorrow. just a few days before father tfs day. we're going to do that as well after a short break. then later, two brothers who have each other's backs
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we often hear so much about companies trying to be flexible for working mothers. back in april, a baseball player started another conversation about working fathers. you might remember new york mets second baseman daniel murphy took paternity leave after his son was born and he caught a heck of flack for missing the first two games of the season. tomorrow, murphy will speak at a white house event devoted to working dads. scott, management professor is also going to be at that white house event tomorrow, and david ostry, arng eanchor for our nbc affiliate that hosts moms in the city, and a david, is live with
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me. he's frsh off baseball practice with his boy, 8-year-old future shortstop for the yankees. i hope so. >> let me start with you in d.c., scott. you run this blog called fathers work and family. we saw murphy take a lot of heat for taking the two games off to be with his new son. how much is about a culture change that has to happen in this country, this stigma that has to be overcome. >> there's plenty of stigma that has to be overcome, but the real lesson from the daniel murphy incident was the overwhelming public support for daniel murphy and the amount of people who called up the radio stations and wrote in and really shouted down the people who were criticizing him for taking paternity leave. perhaps we're at a point where some of that stigma might be getting chipped away at. and maybe, you know, to some degree, our culture is turning a little bit to being more
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appreciative of fatherhood. >> what can we expect from the white house summit tomorrow, where you're going to be in attendance. >> sure, there's several speakers including daniel murphy, and then also there's going to be panels of experts and advocates and business leaders. in particular, my panel will be focusing on hi lighlighting companies that have parental leave, have flexibility and have extended these to fathers, and they're going to discuss how their companies bftd from this fascially. it's not just the right thing to do, not just a nice thing to do or a family friendly thing to do, but it's good business to treat employees, all employees, men and women, as whole people who have families and other commitments outside of work. helping them achieve success in those. and in fact, these companies provide more and more evidence that companies that treat companies like real people
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outperform more churn and burn and let's grind our employees down. >> david, people who watch channel 4 new york city, there's a 40% chance you're going to be on television. you work a lot, but you're also a very present father. what are some of the biggest challenges that dads like you and other working fathers, some of the biggest challenges you face. >> you know it as well. finding that balance and realizing that you are not shirking your professional responsibility if you are paying attention to your household and your family. it wasn't always that way, especially when i was starting out. there was a bias in the work place. the dads provided and the moms if they chose to have children, kind of took care of the chirp. but increasingly with men that i know and dads i know, as scott is saying, that's not the case. we want to be present. we want to be involved. >> when did that change and how did that change? i agree with you, but i don't
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know what was the impetus or if there was? >> a tunching point. i was thinking about that in prepping for this and coming to talk to you. we had these soclogical moments, soccer mom and helicopter parenting, but soccer dad is just a phrase we're starting to hear. >> my there hae is as more women have ascended to leadership positions in companies, as more women have become decision makers in the work place, we have seen perhaps this shift. do we have any research that supports that or is that my wacky idea? >> you're right on. i think the equalityomen at work is intrinsically linked with the quality of fathers at parents. we ned to support both. if we understand and shed some light on, which i'm very grateful for this white house summit for doing so, if we shed light on and start addressing the needs of working dads, this
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is going to help not just dads, but it help kids, it helps moms, it helps families, and i think it helps working moms especially. >> from a policy stand point, what should we be doing that we're not doing now. >> first off, companies can be more progressive on this. the more we show the business case for it, the more they will. 3 states have paid parental leave insurance pramp programs. this is something that could perhaps be adopted on a larger scale. there's the whole working families agenda that this meeting at the white house is part of, it's part of a series of other events highlighting the needs of working families and it fits right in with that. so increased access to child care, childhood education, living wages, increase in minimum wage. they're all kind of a piece of a comprehensive agenda that can maybe help with these issues. >> david, universal paid
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paternity leave would be a help. but what else from laej slative stand point, from a policy stand point should we talk about? >> that's the start of the conversation. one of the reasons the white house wanted to bring in murphy is to acnauocthat baseball throh collective bargaining agreed to that. you and i, and there's the formtle agreement, and then the social logical acknowledgment, and we need to talk more. >> it's funny, i am a new man, and i have found some of the younger dads, we talk about this now a lot more, and there is -- there does seem to be a growing sense of pride when you say, i was at my boy's baseball game. i was hitting balls to him, and blah, blah, blah, so yeah, you're right, from a policy standpoint and a socsociological standpoint. thanks for your time.
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conditions were reportedly so bad that children were sleeping in plastic containers under foil blankets. some of them reportedly had not showers for more than a week. portable showers and toilets were brought in yesterday. they started taking children to the facility last week after the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border into texas simply became too much to handle. hundreds more are expected to arrive at that arizona center by the end of the day. here's mark potter with an update. >> outside the border patrol station in nogalle esesnogales. it's been fairly kw lly quiet. we're told to expect more kids
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coming in here today. we did have a conversation outside the station a short while ago with the console for honduras. he's been inside seeing some of the kids here, he says there are 764 children being taken care of inside. 236 are from honduras. the rest are from guatemala and alsalvador. the average age is 12 and 13. there are some as young as 8. there's a girl who is 16 who has a 1 1/2-year-old baby. there's another girl who is pregnant. they had a rough trip, getting through mexico to the u.s. border. some taking two weeks, some taking two months in the hands of smugglers. some are now in their second week of detention. they have never seen the sun, he says, since they have been in detention. they're now here r they are trying to improve the living condition s here and he's praising the border patrol
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agents and fema who are trying to make the lives better. bricking in cots, portable showers, portable path rooms, trying to bring in food that is culturally sensitive for the children. bringing in clocks so they can reorient themselves to the time. they're treating these children with respect and he has high praise for the agency working under tough, tough conditions that came upon them very quickly. he says that officials are obviously struggling to deal with these kids and find housing for them before they're processed. all kids from central america who are here now have to go through an immigration process. the trick is where to put them in the meantime, and efforts are made to find families or other shelters where they can be held until those hearings are heard before a judge. >> mark potter there. thank you. now to other headlines making news on a sunday afternoon. three month now and searchers appear no closer to finding
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missing malaysian flights 370. a fund-raising job has been set up by relatives of some of the passengers. they're hoping the money will encourage a witness or perhaps even a whistleblower to come forward. tomorrow, at the white house, president obama will issue an executive order on student loans. the action aims to ease the rising debt, sometimes crushing burden of student debt in this country for millions of americans. he's going to cap repayments at 10% of their monthly payment for certain loans. and hugh jackman, the wolverine himself, hosting broadway's biggest night. the tonys will be handed out. the one to beat, a gentleman's guide to love and murder. >> i think this whole sort of deal has been one that the administration has kept very close, and in the eyes of many of us, too close.
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dianne feinstein this morning on face the nation on cbs, echoing what many lawmakers are now saying. anger at the white house about left in the dark in the agreement to trade bowe bergdahl for five taliban soldiers. i want to bring in the brain trust, goldie taylor, also working on a documentary, beth, senior editor for msnbc.com, and david wood for the huffington post. the lack of congressional notification, beth, the identify that bergdahl served with distinction and honor, that they had to back track. should we trust qatar to monitor these five? this is not going away for the administration any time soon. now, secretary haegal is going to be on the hot seat on wednesday. what can we expect to hear from
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him? >> well, the main thing i'm impressed with all of this is there were certainly legitimate questions that secretary hagel is going to answer, that the president is going to answer, but it really is a sign of how polarized our politics have become. >> but the administration had to know the politics in the country was polarized before. >> without question, and they botched it a bit by doing the rose garden ceremony with the parents when there were so many unanswered questions with the parent, that was probably a big pr bungle, on the other hand, republican members of congress who demanded his release turned on a time sxl criticized the president for his release. we had sarah palin come out and criticize him for being a bad soldier. there needs to be more transparency, more clarity about him and the transfer before everybody can start to come out with these strong opinions. >> this is mike rogers.
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republican chairman of the house intelligence committee. this is what he said this morbing. >> maybe not all five, but i do believe three for sure likely four, and that fifth one is on the fence, but i will probably play some role in active operation. >> what the likelihood that he's right? >> well, we don't really know, craig, but the fact is two of these guys have been imprisonedt conkwan mow since 2002. the war has gone on for 12 years without them. any taliban commander is going to look at these guys coming back and say, okay, gramps, you had your time. it's great you're back, but we're running the show now. i'm not that worried about what these guys are going to be up to. besides, we have means of monitoring where they go, who they see, what they say, so i don't think it's that much of a concern. sglb really, you don't these
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think these pose any sort of significant immediately immediate or laurn-term threat? >> like i said, we don't know, but there are enough saf guards in place to keep an eye on them, as secretary of state kerry said this morning, if they start acting up, we have means to deal with that. >> goldie, i wanted to pick up on something beth mentioned in terms of what's happened with the politics of this all, this being a manifestation of this. once we learned thas this was more than a rescued soldier, the was a huge rush by politics to clarify their positions. a lot of guys started deleting tweets. even though they didn't seem all that controversial. we have a couple of the tweets. tweeting, u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl freed after being reported missing five years.
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thoughts and prayers go out to his family. the tweet was sent by a staffer and deleted by the same staffer. then they pointed us to campaign statements. thad cochran, welcome home sergeant bowe bergdahl. great for america. thanks for you for your service. stephen lynch, great to hear bowe bergdahl has been released from captivity. warmness and frardz his family for their sacrifice. neither of the officers would confirm or denide the pub lxz or the deleads of the tweets. how surprised were you at how quickly all this became politicized? >> actually, i was quite stunned. that's real saying something for me. we saw many, and they say the predsort of misjudged the public furor. if you scan the internet, scowal the land skate, you find them
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wanting to briung bergdahl home. they emplored the president to bring home a pot. they said leave no man behind. when we did, they spun on a dime and said this young man was not we worthy to bring home. what i believe they saw was a political opportunity ahead of the twen 14 midterms, certainly ahend of 2016. there are honest questions to ask about hout this deal unfolded, of the five who are foot soldiers, i believe there are reasonable questions to be asked, but it's coming up in the coming elections. >> goldie, your perspective is unique because you're a marine. even if bowe bergdahl walked off, he said to hell with this war, i'm done.
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even if all of that is true, so what? what should they change? how should that have changed the reaction and the response? >> sergeant bergdahl had a history of walking off posts before on two other occasions where he returned. that's an unauthorized absence, possibly awol, it doesn't rise to dezertion. that means he really is not able to be convicted of de0tion, maybe awot. let's leave that aside. that's is bigger than sergeant bergdahl. if you leave him behind, who else can you decide to leave behind. how does that break down the troop murail, how does it break town troop readiness, our fighter force to understand hour brethren are going to get us no matter where we are and leave the moral judgments until after
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we get home. he deserves a fair trial, to put up his own evidence, he deserves to tell his side of the story. this unit decides to tell their side of the story, then let the chips fall where they may, but we should never once question should we bring hem home. >> dpoegoldie raised an interes point as far as scoring political points and maybe it's a way to make headterm in the presidential election in 2016. is nat relestic. this the kind of issue that would motivation a voter iiowa oh minnesota oh new hampshire. i disafreer with what the president did in releasing bow burg dahl. sdwrrb it is part of a political campaign against the president. he's somehow not making legitimate decisions on behalf of the american people.
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this has been a theme of rnens ipshe pcame the president. he chose to squander six others blood and soldier for people who questioned the war. they don't fit the idea we have of the perfectly patriotic, stand-up, humble soldier. why did president then stim his neck up out for this man and give them five taliban soldiers. >> bowe bergdahl is not as much oz an american as i am and neither is this presidential. >> precisely. we want to spend more time talking about this and some of the senate races that cebup for grab. quick break. brain trust up after this. it removes stains within the microfine lines of your teeth... and locks out future stains. crest 3d white luxe toothpaste. life opens up with a whiter smile.
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let's update you now on the breaking news that we are following out of pakistan. gunmen have attacked the international airport there. at least five security guards have reportedly been killed so far. the army is arriving on the scene in pakistan. reports at this point are that at least four, and as many as ten gunmen have been involved. all operations at the airport
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have been suspended, all flights diverted. this attack apparently focused on a terminal not generally used for commercial flights but for special v.i.p. flights. we will continue to watch this story and update you as more information becomes available. six months believe it or not since legalized pot came on the scene in colorado. and in that time debate is still raging on whether the state is actually benefiting from a new-found high. critics highlight people ingesting too much of the drug while proponents point out economic growth and that colorado has not turned into this crime-ridden wasteland that many feared it might. but there is no doubting that all this green continues to generate a whole lot of green for people running local dispense rdi dispensaries. andy wolf joins me live and he along with eight family members
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run the medicine man shop. it sounds like a reality show waiting to be written, andy. >> we've been contacted by quite a few folks, by the way. >> i'm sure. your family has been called the first family of pot. what have the last six months been like for you in colorado? >> you know, it's been business as usual other than a whole lot more activity. and that's exactly the way i wanted it. i think january 1st in colorado proved that the legislation rule making that took place to enable the framework that we have right now to have medical, as well as retail marijuana in the state, and enforce it, was proven out. and then the adults of colorado acted like responsible adults and refer madness didn't ensue. >> so i'm sure you know about this "new york times." a "new york times" columnist wrote about her experience of
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eating way too much pot, in a pot candy bar. she says it wasn't labeled proper. she writes today, "as the black market comes into the light, the hang-loose community can be up tight about any moves to regulate or put contours around the sale of pot to better protect neophytes, teenagers and children." how much after pushback is there among marijuana distributors to actually label some of this stuff? >> well, there's actually a lot of requirements around labeling already in colorado. it's marked with dosage, the type of thc, if it's a specific type. it talks about what was used in production, the ingredients. there's a lot of labeling that goes on already, and quite honestly, this industry is very proactive in educating the public about the differences between edibles and smoking marijuana. there are differences. and at least at medicine man and many others, whom i know around the state, do a lot to educate our customers on that when they
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come in from whether the bud tenders, the sales folks who help people, talking to them and letting them know you don't want to eat the whole brownie, but also pamphlets go out. quite honestly, if you walk into a liquor store, i don't think you got a warning to not drink a whole bottle of vodka before you take it home. there's never been a lethal dose of marijuana. there's been a llethal dose of that. >> i heard your staff works behind bulletproof class. >> we had bulletproof glass -- >> that was according to a denver post report. >> yeah, yeah. that's not true. we have a very open and welcoming shop. >> what were you guys doing before you got into the pot business? just out of curiosity? what kind of business were you into. >> sure. i'm an industrial industry.
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i've been in manufacturing most of my life. before this i was a project portfolio manager for an aviation information company. my brother had a successful tile business and was also a caregiver under colorado laws working out of his basement selling marijuana to folks that had given their rights to him and he was doing very well with that. so when the ogden letter came out in 2009 stating that doj wasn't going to pursue people such as us, we decided to go together and go big. so we did. >> and apparently it's going really well for you. keep us up to date. wanted to get an update on the first six months in colorado, andy. >> it's been fantastic. >> thank you as well for joining us on a sunday afternoon. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here next saturday, 2:00 eastern. until then, keep it here for the latest news updates.
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