huntsman. as we come on the air, president obama is out west meeting with businessowners about cyber security threats and how the government can work with the private sector to combat one of the greatest threats that we face. moments ago, the president issued an executive order aimed at forming a united firewall if you will to fight cyber attackers. the order encourages information sharing between the government and the private sector. creating rules of the road. it will put homeland security in the lead role replacing the embattled nsa. this announcement cannot come soon enough for businesses and the public at large. 85 million records were exposed last year to hackers. u.s. intelligence officials have now labels cyber threats as the number one compromise to national security even more serious than terrorism. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker joins us. the administration is taking this threat very seriously. >> reporter: they certainly are, abby. in fact, senior administration officials say that it is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. and it's a challenge that took

on fresh urgency in the wake of a number of big hacking scandals last year which you recall including, especially, of course, the sony hacking scandal. consider this the united states accounted for 72% of data breachesbreach s wordwide last year. president obama said it's a problem that needs to be fixed. >> these attacks are hurting american companies and costing american jobs so this is also a threat to america's economic security. as consumers, we do more online than ever before. we manage our bank accounts. we shop. we pay our bills. we handle our medical records. and as a country, one of our greatest resources are the young people who are here today. digitally fearless and unencumbered by convention, uninterested in old debates and remaking the world every day,

but it also means that this problem of how we secure this digital world is only going to increase. >> a little bit more about that executive order that president obama is calling for today, first it will increase information sharing between the private sector and the federal government. secondly, it aims to create a set of voluntary standards for information sharing. it also enhances the role of the department of homeland security which will be charged with streamlining access to the threats. and it calls for new enhancement privacy protections. now, one of the goals on the part of the white house of this security summit is to increase the communication between the government and the tech industry and improve the relationship. it's a relationship that has been strained recently with some tech executives feeling as though the white house, the administration wants it to share too much of information. you will notice that tim cook the ceo of apple was there

today. other tech ceos did not attend the event. still the administration hoping this can smooth over what has been a somewhat rocky relationship. one more point i will make the obama administration is pressing for legislation on cyber security. they're also hoping that this will add to the momentum in terms of getting that passed through a very divided congress. abby, back to you. >> kristen welker at the white house for us. thank you as always. let's turn to sean henry, former executive assistant director at the fbi, now president of crowd strike services. thank you for being with us. to build off what kristen was saying, the big news is the department of homeland security really taking the lead to ease concerns of the googles and facebooks of the world but not all companies are buying it. >> yeah you know people always think about nsa as really been the technical part of the government. dhs has always had the north to deal with the private sector, work on protection of critical infrastructure to do consequence

management. they're in a natural organization to lead this as the face of the government with the american public. make no mistake. nsa will have involvement because they collect valuable intelligence. dhs is -- >> let's say, though, about the nsa, they don't think of them as someone capable to oversee this. >> i think nsa certainly could have the capability. i think it's more perception rather than capability. the intelligence community should stay in the background. there's an organization that should be dealing day-to-day with the american public. there's a better sense of calm, i think, by the public when that agentcy is put forward. i don't think it should be indicative of anything about nsa or their capabilities. >> sure. just focusing on the command and control aspects in terms of executeing the policy, we've seen the great debate on drones for example, cia versus the pentagon and how that balance operates. in reality, how is the execution of this policy really going to work? >> there is, in this space, in cyber security, a lot of coordination across the entire

intelligence community, fbi, dhs, cia, department of defense, they've been koordcoordinateing for years in this space. we'll see dhs pushed more forward in a prominent way. there are currently nsa representatives embedded in other centers. there are dhs representatives in all the other centers. today that collaboration is occurring. i think having dhs out in front for the american public is going to provide them a greater level of confidence. >> what do you think of this other standoff here between fbi and some of the obama administration folks and people in silicon valley over encryption and the fact that law enforcement authorities say they want technology in their view to be created in a way where they can still get in and get everything, whereas we're reaching a technological level, you can encrypt in a way and you can't get information back when you do have a warrant? >> the technology community is

using this as an opportunity to get the attention of the administration. the fbi and law enforcement says they're going dark. in other words, they're not able to collect against terrorists their communications which help them to prevent terrorist attacks. the technology community in silicon valley and elsewhere and the general public to an extend are interested in ensuring their data isn't encrypted and protected. i think there's going to have be legislation here have to see changes that will balance the needs of law enforcement to protect the country from terrorism. >> sure. balance is a good idea good approach. do you think apple should be forced by congress to basically make sure that its technology has a back door for the government because the sort of liberal and libertarian skepticism out there where the president is speaking today is they shouldn't have to build for the government. they're building for their consumers. >> they are building they're innovative. i think that the perception is that if there's a back door that the government can use it, perhaps hackers could use that to access data. not only is there a privacy concern, but legitimate security concerns about who might have ax

access to that type of information. >> you talk about hackers. there's a story in the "vanity fair" that talk about the sony hack and north korea has an army of 6,000 hackers becoming the sort of hacker one of very few ways in move up in that society. surely that number one grow over the next few years. and they're not just going to be attacking companies that make movies that they don't like. they're going to start to move in on the u.s. government. so thinking about the threat from north korea and what other countries do you think we should be worried about? do you think this sort of international cyber warfare is going to be a much bigger issue going forward? >> that's my biggest concern how this continues to move forward and the asymmetric threat. countries like north korea can attack the united states remotely digitally. we have countries like china, russia iran. they're constantly attacking our infrastructure. the president talks today about privacy and credit card numbers and consumer information. the reality of it is china and russia are stealing intellectual property, research and development. and the real threat is not how

many credit card numbers are we losing but how much innovation how much corporate strategy and corporate intellectual property is leaving allowing companies to compete against the united states in an unfair way? >> probably could not have come at a better time. sean henry, thank you as always for being with us. >> thank you. up next chris christie blasts the white house an isis. he may have a point here. plus how low can it go? temperatures plummeting to below zero in parts of the country. chief meteorologist rafael mirandez has the forecast. we'll have the master of sweets willy wonka of new york city creator of the cronut and frozen s'mores. edible creations inspired by love. we get to eat chocolate. >> yeah. >> "the cycle" rolls on. it is friday, guys. the 13th.

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if i could explain to you in just one phrase the feeling that i detected in our country, it's that. what has happened to america? we used to control events. now events control us. i will tell you what's happened to america. an absolute abject failure of leadership in the oval office for the last six years and it's got to stop. >> no introduction required. that was new jersey governor chris christie blasting the president last night in obama's hometown of chicago. you can expect this to be a common theme heading into 2016. and the president may have given his critics some ammunition this

week. they argue obama's request for military powers to fight isis was short on specifics. specially when it comes to syria. for more on this and all things politics, we bring in daniel, washington correspondent at the "economist daily." thank you for joining the show. >> thank you for having me. i want. >> i want to zone in or test chris christie's accusation the president is lacking leadership at the moment. i want to do it a little more analytically analytically. in terms of military activity, the president resisted military activity in ukraine, crimea. he's resisted it when it comes to keeping troops in afghanistan for longer tan we think they should be there. and also arming the syrian rebels. now, leadership on the international stage is a very delicate balance between soft power and hard power. does christie have a point? has the president got this balance right? >> i think it's fair to say obama has -- the famous phrase led from behind. if you lockok at libya, he was following france and britain into war. syria, he reacted quite slow lply.

again, floundered. he came to office wanting to withdraw from foreign wars and, you know drew down the american contribution to its forces in iraq and afghanistan. and he found himself with all of these problems which, you know military intervention where american troops or forces or bombing may be needed and he's been slow, it seems, to make a decision which leads to the impression that america is being forced into decisions rather than taking them you know in advance. >> i think there is something to say for what you've said the president has been slow but it is a war-wary nation that is a bit tired of leading from the gut, going into countries that did not attack us a little too quickly. it seems to me in general the idea, the critique that this president is being reactive on foreign policy not that you just said that but many have said that is a bit historical think about jfk with the bay of picks or bush with bid laden,

over and over presidents are forced to be reactive on foreign policy because it's hard to predict much of what would happen. also i add to that chris christie says once we controlled the world since world war ii. when did that happen? >> absolutely. american politics goes in cycles of interventionism and nonver noninterventionism. a lot of the things he prioritized are things a lot of people in congress don't like. he's had problems you know, with israel, palestine, iran. thinks he's wanted to do he's struggled to do. he's been reactive. perhaps it's fair to say some of the things have not been clear cut. this war authorization that he's called for congress suddenly decided it's really not that sure whether or not -- it's a two-face critique. i think it's a fair critique. >> i agree that it's fair. when he says things like we have not had leadership in six years. there are a lot of people as

toure was saying, that would a gree with that, efshven a number of democrats. the source from which it's coming from chris cistie which doesn't have a lot of foreign policy experience himself. i mean let's look at the trip he just took to the uk when he came back, he got a lot of criticism. "business insider" said the trip was a disaster. a 22-year-old staffer from a member of parliament from cameron's conservative party knew of christie however his impression of the governor was not exactly a pozsitive one. if you can't get it right there, that's a problem. 2016, the gop field 2016 contend e, none of them have real foreign policy experience in a time when we probably need it more than ever. >> it's very curious to see these american governors go to london, to show off their foreign policy credentials. christie was there, walker the

other day went to chatham house which is great britain's preeminent think tank and didn't say anything about foreign policy policy. i don't know what he was doing at a foreign policy think tank not answering questions about foreign policy. if you're going to build up your credentials, you have to have opinions. it's curious how these candidates don't seem to want to. >> you're right, daniel. politically it's become something of a recent tradition for republican aspirants to go to the uk they're a close ally they speak english. it's a half step way to show you can get out there. it's not working. maybe they should start with canada, get the training wheels going better. also english speaking then go from there. >> they don't have fish and chips, though. >> oh. >> they don't have fish and chips. >> i can see from your smile, daniel, you thought that was funny in a british way although you're not going to laugh too much out loud. i respect that. >> really? >> the only question i have for you looking at the president whatever criticisms there are of

the republicans in congress, or wanting his job, they're still, of course, over there on the side doing commentary in a potential authorization. what did you make, though, of this president coming out on wednesday, first time in over a decade that we want to consider going into a new war and he offered very little in the way of detail or strategy on what this looks like what is the mission, what are the actual details to avoid mission creep? and how do we win? because i didn't hear much of those details on wednesday despite this being billed as his case for war. >> it's -- i was surprised even by the request in a way. i mean it seems like you know america has been committing forces in syria and iraq for months now. for a long time. this has happened. it's already being fought. essentially what he seems to be asking for is permission after the fact. to do whatever is already happening. and that might be fine, and one way you could see it, he's trying to give congress a say in something they refused to have a

say in pushes congress into showing that they, too, show to quite define what they want. on the other hand it's very vague. all these republicans on one side sort of saying great, gung-ho, go in. democrats saying they would like kind of more definition for what the war is and as a result, i don't think it's going to resolve anything. i'm not sure what the point of it is. if it were more narrow perhaps is would produce a real explanation of what the president wants to do in iraq and syria. >> i can tell from your smile that you're still laughing at ari's joke. good for you, sir. daniel knowles. >> i can see it too. >> breaking news right now. nbc news confirmed oregon governor john kitzhaber plans to resign amid a growing ethics scandal. the democrat faces allegations his fiancee used her relationship with him to enrich herself. kitzhaber is the longest serving chief executive. kate brown is expected to assume

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the term bitter blast to explain how cold it is going to be. this time i swear, i swear we really mean it. we're talking temperatures lower than some of us have seen in a generation. wind and snow watches and warnings stretch from florida and maine, as far west as michigan. new england is bracing for another blizzard. >> a little exaggerated. >> 10 additional inches of snow to freshen up the massive piles. what we're going to be talking about by sunday is not necessarily snow totals but the wind. chief meteorologist raphael miranda has the details. >> it sounds really bad when you say. this has been a never-ending winter, of course, for our friends in boston and new england. unfortunately, horrible news a

valentine's day blizzard. new york city it was very cold this morning. that type of cold is what we'll see throughout the weekend. it could be even worse on monday morning. in fact we have blizzard watches again in effect for boston, for our friends in new england. a winter storm watch in effect for much of new england including long island. here in new york city we won't see blizzard conditions but across long island we might. this is how much snow is on the way, of course, on top of what we already have in massachusetts especially. another 10 inches of snow possible around the boston area. new york city, looking at 5 inches. this starts tomorrow afternoon. and will taper off sunday afternoon. so travel plans saturday night into sunday morning are going to be tricky in new york city. that will linger a little longer as you head east to boston throughout the day on sunday. besides the cold in intense winds, this is going to be one of those storms that bombs out so the winds are going to be fierce around 50 miles per hour in new york city 60 mile per hour wind gusts. we may see blizzard and white conditions around the boston area, winds gusting up to 70

miles per hour sunday as the storm pulls away. windchills were rough this morning. we're up to 10. that's what it feels like in new york city. below zero windchills across interior new england. that comes back sunday. in tomorrow's forecast a bit of a break in new york city. up to 30 with the snow moving in by the afternoon. saturday night into sunday temperatures plummet once again. by sunday morning, we're waking up to windchills around 20 below. in the suburbs of new york city. and monday morning, even worse. monday morning, we could break 10 and 20-year-old records of how cold it get get in new york city. get ready for a frigid president's day. thankfully the kids don't have to head to the school bus because it's going to be so, so cold. >> sounds absolutely terrible. thank you. may be cold outside but we will tell you there's a heated debate over the president's new call for war powers against isis. congress has been holding hearings. some members talking about writing their own authorization of force against isis. one top-ranking democrat on the intelligence committee has done

that. adam schiff wrote a resolution last year. he's been meeting with white house officials as they drafted this week's bill. schiff is advocateing a targeted precise approach to isis and wants to repeal both of the other juarezwar war resolutions before passing another one. >> the joint resolution has passed. >> reporter: it's been more than a decade since congress passed a juarez loose. isis continues executing hostages, the president asking for new war powers. >> it's not the authorization of another ground war. this resolution strikes the necessary balance by giving us the flexibility we need for unforeseen circumstances. >> reporter: congressional leaders in both parties agree the u.s. should act in some way against isis but they differ on the details. adam schiff the top democrat on the intelligence committee, has spent months advocatingtarget ed war resolution and wrote his

own draft. >> my meetings and discussions with administration started last year. our institution has the most to lose by this stalemate and did lose a great deal because he set a precedent that future presidents could make war for half a year without the congress bothering to weigh in. >> reporter: he believes congress should -- and the iraq war in 2002. >> one is that we ought to have some kind of a geographic limitation on this authorization. otherwise, this president or a future president could use it anywhere in the world in a context wholly different than what's going on today. >> reporter: those war resolutions for operations in afghanistan and iraq, to bomb several other countries as the threat spread. >> i have the ability to address the threat from isil but i believe we're strongest as a nation when the congress works

together. >> reporter: it's not only geographic, but a product of defining the enemy too vaguely. >> the president has relyied on this term associated forces, go after groups like isil that didn't exist at the time the original authorization was written. so we have to be very careful about terms that might authorize this for the next president to say go after boko haram and say that's an associated force of isil or go after terrorists anywhere in the globe from the philippines to malaysia, to nigeria potentially. >> reporter: another delimit on the fight against isis is a simple one, a deadline. >> contains a sunset date of three years which i think is an appropriate length of time in is and it will get past the presidential election. >> reporter: many democrats want rules to narrow operations against isis it is top republicans who object to limiting powers to the president when it comes to war. >> it is deeply ironic that a gop that has called this an imperial president, king, would

want to give them unbridled war making power in one of the most serious areas of our work, one of the most important checks and balances in the constitution. that is congress' power to declare war that many of my gop colleagues are willing to give the president cart blanche. >> reporter: they say it's bad policy to micromanage any commander in chief at war. >> i don't want to limit the president's ability to take on the terrorist threat directly. >> it will require boots on the ground. the question is, whose boots? and i think it would be a very foolish mistake for us to stay in advance what we won't do. >> reporter: in the end, however, the president's new proposal fundamental changes america's debate over isis moving from rhetoric and platitudes to rules and specifics. that offers congress a chance schiff says, to stop politicking and start defining a war that's already six months old. >> it won't be a purely partisan difference. there will be i think many

libertarian republicans who are likewise concerned about giving the president too much authority to make war in too many parts of the globe who are likely to join with democrats in wanting some constraining principles in this new authorization. >> all right. that's a great report. i think it's a much well needed analysis needed on that. now, the thing i want to zone in as an ex-military strategist is this enduring offensive ground combat operations. the thing which is plaguing me my analysis is what type of conditions in syria would actually require the deployment of a massive defensive of ground troops? because if we're going forward with this sound bite saying we're not going to deploy it would be nice to hear the analysis saying it is unlikely that we're going to need to do that in the first place. that is something which i've been struggling with. that seems to be -- >> you and others have struggled, a lot of people who heard the proposal from the president. the problem i have is the word he continues to use, this is

destroy isis. he said it over and over again. i'm worried this is a dangerous word to use, we've not defined what we're trying to achieve over there in setting a standard or a line rather we can't actually get to. you ask yourself have we destroyed al qaeda? have we destroyed the taliban? >> they're better words to use. >> the answer to that no why not use degrade, why not use deter? why not set yourself up for success? >> i find myself dispirited by the entire situation. a three-year -- that means in three years or two the next president will begin to talk about what else are we going to do? we still haven't talked about repealing the 2001 aumf which allows the president to do anything he wants and ultimately we don't as a nation want a large ground force because that's long-term counterproductive. but this strategy of attrition means that we're going to have a permanent war. permanent war footing. and that is long-term

counterproductive. so either way, we're between a rock and a hard place. >> i think that's well put. you're talking about the way people feel. endless war. the legal piece of that is is there the authority for endless war? as long as there's a resolution on the books without an expiration date, that's the case now. the question is, do we want to do a new one with an expiration date? legally there will be the power for endless war no matter who is president, obviously this is a debate that will continue for some -- >> sorry. >> a debate that will continue for some time. i want to tell you about what we can do online if you want to see more. go to the new series where we have an interview with congressman schiff if you want to watch it back msnbc.com/rule msnbc.com/rules/of msnbc.com/rules/of/engagement. along with my annotations on the legal background for some of the clauses. it's part of an msnbc partnership with the editing platform, genius.com.

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a landmark speech by fbi director jim comey spoke to the roots of the relationship between black communities and the police. >> many people in our white majority culture have unconscious racial biases and react differently to a white face than a black face. in fact we all, white and black, carry various biases around with us. i am reminded of the song from the broadway hit "avenue q" everyone is a little bit racist a part of which goes like this. "look around and you will find no one's really colorblind. maybe it's a fact we all should face. everyone makes judgments based on race." >> comey said police officers are generally not racist but despite the best of intentions disparate outcomes persist because of shortcuts and

subconscious buy seizeiases. let's welcome back mr. rose of "foreign affairs" magazine, a special about race there americain america. one of them called "racial inequality after racism." the authors write "the u.s. is in part a post-racist country, a place where the role of race is more subtle and hidden from view but no less potent." i think that is true in some acesace cases although coming off ferguson garner tamir, rice is it that much hidden and sutton? talk about where you see this happening. >> first can i say it's amazing to have the head of the fbi quoting puppets? >> indeed. >> i really find that astonishing. >> look, the piece that you're talking about is really cool because it argues that we have this paradox which is that we have a society which is in many respects in the united states beyond racism. it's no longer enshrined in day-to-day practice of a majority of individuals or the formal practice of institutions.

we have a black president. and, yet, at the same time there still is a dramatic structural disadvantage to many minority groups in the country. their position is still dramatically unequal. what explains this? the right and the left both point to individual biases. the right tends to say, you know what, the system is now working in a colorblind way but it's the fault of the minority communities that just can't perform. the left kind of does a flip side and says, no, in fact, racism is there beneath the surface of white people's actions and institutions so it's an effort to get white people to get past their racism. the what piece talks about, there's this paradox. institutions that are operating in a race neutral colorblind way today for set up back in the day in a racist era with hidden structural biases that make their neutral operations unequally disproportionately harsh on various kind of minority communities. so whether it's ideal juscriminal

justice system or housing, banks red lining, insurance rates, educational, financing, so forth, all these things are ones in which the system even neutrally is set up in a way to disfavor populations that are -- >> speaking directly to that i still see a real lack of diversity with some of the fortune 500 companies but also when it comes to economic inequality, the gap is still huge. i think we have a chart of that we can show people. compare black families to white families. it's still quite unbelievable. why does this still persist? >> this is the big question. it doesn't just persist because of the individual performance of people in the minority communities and doesn't just persist because they're held back. it persists because there are a whole variety of structures and institutions in american life that make it a nonlevel playing field for individuals and the rules of the game are tilted against certain kinds of communities. tilted against members of those communities so even if they do work hard even if they do try to do the right thing, they end up getting shafted by the system.

so what we need to is actually look throughout our society at the systems. not just the individuals in the systems but the structures of the institutions, themselves. our authors recommend a stress test, like we did with the financial institutions, is this operating in a fayir way? that's an interesting concept. >> powerful idea. >> it's often said race is a local construction, when we talk about race in america, we think of that in universalistic tones when, in fact other countries have were different issues around race, religion, et ethnicity. you have an article in the series that looks at europe a place on everyone's minds as you've seen the terrorism and the balkanization and counterbacklash around some of these issues who is muslim and what modern islam and militant islam mean there. i want to read one point from there where the writer says "separate diversity as a lived experience from multiculturalism as a political process."

what does that mean? >> it's a great point. the issue is really fun because it turns out everybody thinks of their own racial context in their own country as inevitably political and the one everybody else is facing. each country has a slightly different context. the multicultural point is the following. a lot of european countries focused on diversity as a positive thing but not really wanting to have full dieverseity across the whole society, have kind of said, okay, al all you minorities get to have rights as a group. saying we're going to give equality to different groups. that's had a deeply pernicious effect because it's looked people in the boxes we should all try to get past. i think the real lesson of european multiculturalism is not that diversity is a bad thing, but diversity should be on the individual level, not the group level. >> right. >> it shouldn't just be okay muslims get this. >> gideon i want to pick up on south africa.

nowhere more prominent really are these issues, south africa. jim gibson's particular piece on apartheid like shadow. "the future of south africa's multiracial democracy depends heavily on minimizing animosity and hostility between the groups. "what's the main source of this animosity and how can we overcome it? >> south africa is fascinating. four different groups there that are totally different from our groups. not entirely. somewhat different. you have blacks whites coloreds and asians meaning south asians primarily rather than east asians. the groups basically when they start to get to know each other and interact they tend to have the barriers break down. but if you have overlapping cleavages, if they don't interact, they don't break down the racism and get past it. south african society has been riven by past cleavages,

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♪ valentine's day. the perfect day to treat your special someone. or just indulge yourself. we're lucky enough to have with us a master of confection. acclaimed pastry chef, dominique anzel, sparked a new york and global sensation when he invented the cronut part croissant, part doughnut. i still haven't tried it. i'm dieing to. let to the "new york post" to proclaim him willy wonka of nyc. his book includes an at home cronut recipe. that sounds dangerous. we get to try some of his special valentine's creations right now. such an honor to have you with us. >> welcome. >> thanks for being here. happy almost valentine's day. >> almost? it's tomorrow. >> it is tomorrow. you're right. >> we have a few, tomorrow we're turning everything pink at the bakery. the entire display of pastry

will be pink or shade of pink. this is 95% of our customers are gentlemen. >> because they're buying for their badeladies. >> exactly. >> over here we have -- >> a gentleman. >> thank you, michael. >> pleasure. >> we have the lobster cookie. >> that's so cute. >> it's a cookie shaped as a lobster, for you my lobster. we can break it apart. >> did you create this? >> why like a lobster? >> i always go for the claw anyway. >> my love, sir. to stay forever together. >> he always asks the hard questions. >> that was the hard question? >> these are very good. >> thank you. >> what is this one? >> here we have the oyster cake. so it's a cake that is made with four different layer of chocolate. and we put two little oysters on top. they're made out of chocolate as well. and this is the aphrodisiac

cake. >> should i try it and let you know since i'm the only woman in the place? >> i hope it doesn't work instantly, abby. if is. >> that is so cute. >> this is the cupid, it's a cream puff. >> how long does it take to make this person? >> really, really, cute adorable. >> take the wing and try it. >> they fly, right? >> an angel lost its wing. >> you get to have two. >> you're going to eat the head of an angel, ari? >> if you do this, does everything come out of you -- >> we make it all 100%. >> you got a lot of your inspiration living in france right? >> that's right. >> how did you bring that here? >> well, you know when i first opened the bakery it was about three years ago. i always want to do something that was different, unique and exciting for me for my team but also for my customers. at the bakery we change the

menu often every six to eight weeks we do a whole new menu and change the pastries. >> the thing people know about your bakery is there's always a line. >> always. >> why is it that your bakery is so your bakery is so popular? >> we take good care of our kus mirror -- customers, we have a good product. that's the dynamite. it is chocolate cake with a soft caramel and a crunchy wafer in the center. it is meant to be shared between two people. >> you do all this yourself, or do you have a team around you? >> i have a great team. >> you do? >> yes. i don't do everything myself. >> he shares the credit. >> if you're going to talk that's great. >> i see this shaped like

dynamite. the oysters, the lobster, and we have at a lower-class level the swedish fish. >> the swedish fish? >> why is it always sweets that are shaped like other things than non-sweet food? >> it is easy when you do pastries you can do everything from scratch. you can do the food you want and shape it the way you want it. when you work with vegetables or meat it is a little bit harder. >> you could have a dynamite meat stick. >> it would be different. >> valentine's day is a busy time of the year but what about halloween, the holidays christmas? >> a very busy time for us. >> that's the best times in terms of profit. >> what is your favorite thing for your palette that you make? >> i love everything i make.

valentine's day, we can have fun and do things that are different. >> something that people don't know about, we talked about the long lines outside of your bakery, but you get there early to spend time with all of your fans. >> i am there at 8:00 to welcome my customers and to make sure when they come to the bakery they have a good time. >> i need to get in this line. i haven't tried a cronut yet. >> do you work out a lot, making this all day? >> i work out very early in the morning. i go to bed very late. >> dominique ansel, thank you so much for bearing with us. i appreciate it. here's the moment that inspired the lobster dessert. you'll love this. >> rachel and i should be together and we should get some kind of message service. >> hang in there.

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so yesterday my sister krystal ranted about the negative impact jon stewart "daily show" has had on the tone of political discourse in america and i have got to disagree. "the daily show" with jon stewart has been one of the great shows in television

history. he portrayed himself as the sane man in the circus. our current political system and the media surrounding is indeed chock full of absurdity and to say anything else is not telling the whole truth. he was not a champion of apathy. he never suggested it was beyond repair. he was in his way saying all this can be better and we can speak truth to power. >> the system is corrupt. >> the system isn't corrupt. there is corruption in the system but the system isn't corrupt. >> it feels to me that the system has been utterly overrun by money interests. >> his show had serious and valuable interviews. >> obviously, you're a lady senator. i'm just going to put this out here.

all right. there's that anger we have heard about. >> stewart took over the "the daily show" in 1999 and watched bush dispatch gore as they reminded us that liberals can be overintellectual and drown in nuance. jon practiced a muscular liberalism liberalism. it was a clear quest for justice as he saw it. >> if comedy is tragedy plus time, i need more [ bleep ] time but i would really settle for less [ bleep ] to be honest with you. i can imagine there are a lot of people out there wondering how much of a society we're living in at all. >> he critiqued this country because he loved it.

if journalism is meant to create a more informed citizenry, did jon not do that in spades? he didn't let comedy get in the way of making a serious point, but he put together a consistently funny show that assumed his audience was teammate intelligent. the next stop is the tv hall of fame. here it is. your moment of zen. >> the language of your metaphor implies a salacious story. why don't you come out and say the prince had a gay experience? >> your words, not mine, jon. i tell you this much. if it was substantiated just

imagine. >> thanks for watching "the cycle." have a great day. fbi director james combmy says it is time for hard truths as new incidents highlight the hard reality for people confronted by police. it is friday february 13th and this is "now." >> justice. justice. >> demonstrators in washington are vowing to hit the streets every night. >> police officers fatally shot a man who at one point was running away from them. >> we don't prejudge. we do the investigation. >> he allegedly through rocks at them in passing cars. >> in alabama, a police officer is facing assault charges for an aggressive takedown. >> an incident