front page. >> it's wednesday, march 11th. welcome to "way too early." >> she's all over the news. >> hillary clinton is facing even more questions this morning after breaking her silence about her use of a private e-mail account while serving as secretary of state. >> the united nations served as a backdrop yesterday for clinton's attempt to end the controversy ahead of her likely bid for the white house in 2016. as for the main question of why she only used mother-in-law e-mail account she says it was for convenience. >> when i got to work as secretary of state i opted for convenience to use my personal e-mail account which was allowed by the state department because i thought it would be's easier to carry just one account. looking back it would have been better if i simply use ad second e-mail account and carried a second phone but at the time this didn't seem like an issue.

looking back it would have been better for me to use two separate phones and two e-mail accounts. i thought using one device would be simpler and, obviously, it hasn't worked out that way. >> of course you know, everybody we know carries two phones. it's all very interesting. when she was in the united states senate she carried two phones. everybody can watch carries two phones. i guess she decided i will never ever ever carry two phones again. but wait. there's more. less than three weeks ago hillary clinton admitted at a conference in silicon valley she currently uses two phones. >> iphone or android? >> iphone. okay. in full disclosure -- >> blackberry. >> and a blackberry. i don't throw anything away. i'm like two steps short of a

hoarder. so i have an ipad, a mini ipad an iphone and a blackberry. >> she doesn't throw anything away except 30,000 emails. >> clinton also admits in an e-mail she considered personal is deleted. her office said that's more than 32,000. half of all the emails in the account. >> we went through a thorough process to identify all of my work related emails and delivered them to the state department. at the end i chose not to keep my private personal emails. emails about planning chelsea's wedding or my mother's funeral arrangements condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routine, family vacation the other things you typically find in in boxes. no one want their personal emails made public and i think most people understand that and respect that privacy.

>> tech experts also question clinton's insistence that her private e-mail server was secure. she said it was set up for her husband and is resisting calls to turn over the server. >> we have more than met the request from the state department. the server contains personal communications from my husband and me and i believe i have met all of my responsibilities and the server will remain private and i think that the state department will be able over time to release all of the records that were provided. >> mrs. clinton says that server will remain private. i'm not so sure that that's up to her to decide. but her statement also is coming under scrutiny about her husband and her communications on e-mail since a spokesman for bill clinton said the former president has only sent two emails ever. both of those were during his

presidency. so as you can guess it didn't take long for the two sides to go to their collective corners, democrats and republicans reacted to hillary clinton and several potential republican candidates weighed in including carly fiorina. she told us hillary clinton told us to trust her. nothing in her track record suggests we should do so. republican rand paul criticized clinton for applying the double standard. >> i don't think that clinton should be above the law. she said part of the reason why she didn't obey the law was convenience. but i don't think convenience should trump national security. i think there's a little bit of arrogance some of these laws applied to lower people but not to me i'm hillary clinton. >> possible democratic candidates for president including jim webb martin o'malley and bernie sanders did not comment after clinton's news conference. but she did receive support from democratic senator diane

feinstein. >> i think the important you thing was she stepped forward and talked to people. and i think people will be reassured listening to it. now, i know this is look the most popular political figure in the country right now. and there is an effort from an opposition party to demean and diminish her anyway they can. i think most people agree personal e-mails should be private material. i mean if i have an e-mail with my husband, i'm not an administration official but if i were should i disclose that? i don't think so. >> it's unbelievable the spinning has begun. we saw another democratic senator last night saying things that made no sense. i made no sense. they would not put up with this in their own office. they wouldn't have done -- diane feinstein would never have done that as secretary of state and hillary clinton didn't answer the question. i wonder why these democratic

senators are going out there and embarrassing themselves by claiming that america saw something that they didn't see. this isn't a republican issue. this is a "the washington post" issue. this is a "new york times" issue. this is a national security issue. this is a freedom of information issue. i can't believe how a lot of these democrats put their dignity in a blind trust for a candidate who pay not end up running for president. >> let's bring in bob franken who has covered the clintons since the early '90s. what stood out the you as the most problematic. >> what stood out the me first of all talk about groundhog day circumstance. same kind of reaction that we've gotten ever since there was an investigation into whitewater as a matter of fact there was a famous news conference she held after trying so hard to keep

information about whitewater which was a nonscandal, one of those circumstances where the cover up was worse than the crime. there was no crime, apparently. without she admitted at the time when she held the news conference finally that she has to understand that if you're going to be a public figure and presidential candidate would qualify for that you have to understand that the zone of privacy as she called it doesn't exist. >> bob it's very interesting. you said there was no scandal there. there was no scandal perhaps we'll never know because of the fact that these rose law firm billing records that the press, that congress had been looking for for two years disappeared. then magically appeared in the white house residential area on the table. >> you're going way back. >> not going way back. because now we have the same thing with e-mails. >> you will recall that she

suffered the humiliation of being the only first lady who has ever appeared before a grand jury as a result of that. quite frankly i think she sometimes gets bad legal advice from people who just perhaps are too smart or think they are too lawyerly. for instance at her news conference yesterday she was very careful on her terminology. what does it mean to talk about in terms of the work product. that kind of thing. what about the emails that went to state department employees that are archived but what about the ones who were ancillary had some connection with the job she was doing or the foundation that's infamous now. all of that has been deleted. >> i guess what you're both saying is at some point it's you. >> at some point. bob, if you can stick around we want to talk to you some more with this during the "morning joe." >> bob franken thank you.

more fall out this morning on the coach plus of oklahoma university. two fraternity members caught chanting racial slurs ainu tube video has been expelled from the university. the two studio audience have been identified both from dallas, texas. >> let's bring in nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez. he's on campus in norman oklahoma. gabe, good morning. >> reporter: joe good morning. there's a lot of outrage here on the campus of the university of oklahoma. the university's president says he hopes the expulltion of two students shows the campus has a zero tolerance. it's a chant that shocked the country one of the students involved has been identified. the student pumping his fist is parker rice a university of oklahoma freshman who graduated

from a jesuit prep school in dallas last year. >> i'm saddened and hurt here we are 2015 and we're still dealing with issues of racism and bigotry. >> reporter: now this short clip posted online showing the long time house mother for the fraternity at ou using the same racial slur. in a written statement she says she's heartbroken by any racist portrayal. she doesn't tolerate any form of discrimination and only singing along to a rap song. the sae house members rushed to move out before the midnight deadline. the fraternity shut down leaving its cook without a job. own line donors raised about $50,000 for him. >> it's like getting punched in the stomach. >> reporter: jonathan davis said he was the first pledge of in 1999. >> that house turned into a

symbol for modern day racism. >> reporter: we spoke with an ou senior who asked us not to show her face. >> i wasn't surprised. >> reporter: she heard the same chant on a bus two years ago at an sae date party. the fraternity's national headquarters says it's investigating but any suggestion this chant is a tradition is false. university officials here say their investigation is not over and that more students could be disciplined. back to you. >> now, the two students who were identified in the video have apologized. the statement by levy petite's parents read include we were shocked and saddened by this news and sad for our son. but more importantly we apologize to the community he's hurt. parker rice says in part quote i made a horrible mistake.

i admit it was likely fueled by alcohol consumed at the house before the bus trip but that's not an excuse. yes, the song was taught to us but that doesn't work as an explanation. >> now sae's national organization is responding to the claim that the song was twaugt the statement its own that reads in part the national fraternity does not teach such a racist hateful chant and this chant is not part of any education or training. our investigation has found very likely that the men learned the song from fellow chapter members. the statement goes on to condemn the behavior of the house mother seen in the new video as well. >> let's turn to business. u.s. stocks plummeted tuesday with the dow falling 333 points. a really rough start to the new year and both the dow and s&p 500 are down in the red for 2015. now investors are fearing the fed will hike interest rates for the first time in nine years. hiking interest rates. it just doesn't happen.

i mean that happened last century. but could we see a rise in interest rates? >> possibly. because one like here in europe you chance are getting to near full employment. if you have full employment and that builds up inflation consequences it's morally good. but the fed feels it has to respond. all those economists who thought we wouldn't get a rate hike in 2015 is worried it's the start of the cycle. that's why the market took a little bit of a jetty yesterday. the other problem as you have higher rays and we have low rates here in europe the dollar rallies. what does it do? it makes it less competitive for those u.s. exporters and that's why these major indices took a bit of a wobble. they had a very long run. 3.5% off the peak which they hit on the 2nd of march.

apple yesterday, about the watch and ramifications. is it a trillion dollar company. this is an interesting story. apparentlily according to top secret documents, the cia researchers have been conducting a multiyear sustained effort to break the security of apple iphone and ipads as well. every year they have some sort of jamboree in what they can do to break into the security. the cia has declined the story. back to you. >> we're following some breaking news. unfortunate breaking news out of my home town this morning. the search-and-rescue mission is under way after an army helicopter crashed during a training exercise last night at eggland air force base. this happened on between pensacola even destin florida.

officials say marines are part of the special ops group. they are part of a national guard base. we'll keep you updated. but those flights go a lot of times at night they have a special ops field and hopefully they will be found. >> we'll follow that story. still ahead on "way too early" the e-mail scandal wasn't the only thing hillary clinton discussed yesterday. the issue that was far easier for the former secretary of state to talk about. plus enjoy it while you can. we'll tell you where ecstasy and other party drugs have been legalized at least for now. i wouldn't say enjoy it while you can. that story and a check on weather when "way too early" comes right back.

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47 senators are continuing to face criticism this morning for sending a letter to iran. warning a possible nuclear deal would not hold up under the next. >> hick strongly denounced the lawmakers before she broke her silence about that private e-mail controversy. >> the recent letter from republican senators was out of step with the best traditions of american leadership. and one has to ask what was the purpose of this letter? there appears to be two logical answers. either these senators were trying to be helpful to the iranians, or harmful to the commander-in-chief in the midst

of high stakes international diplomacy. >> all right. we'll talk more about that on "morning joe." let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. hello, bill. >> foggy for you guys coming in this morning >> a little bit. spooky. >> a little spooky. in baltimore they delayed schools because of the fog. >> really? >> a 90-minute fog delay. i never heard of that before. fog delay. >> while you're looking down you wouldn't believe it was sticky. >> did it again? >> i have a confession. >> he made that obscene gesture. >> i'm winking at joe. it's not only to confuse you guys. >> it's the hand motion. let's do the weather. >> fog is a big issue. 90 million people under fog advisories to start your morning from dallas to chicago, cincinnati, cleveland and back up through i-95. visibility so far is not too bad.

baltimore, d.c. and new york five to six miles. it's in the burbs a lot worse and especially where we had a lot of snow. hartford visibility one mile. pittsburgh a tenth of a mile visibility. you can guarantee because of that a lot of airport problems especially in the morning. the afternoon gorgeous, bright sunny. as long as the fog say round, boston from pittsburgh area back to chicago too st. louis and dallas, expect morning delays. now as far as the rain goes flood watches are in effect. this is the next storm going to drench the gulf coast, up through the southeast over the next 24 hours. eventually this rain will move on saturday up through new england. keep that in mind for your plans. in the meantime joe and mika this is about as nice as we get for the middle of march. 60 in new york this afternoon. 72 in tell. >> no way. i told you bill karins would come through for us. >> warmest day in new york in three months. >> happy man. any flooding problems? >> biggest issues we had some

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let's get a check on the morning's other headlines with -- should we go to him? >> i guess to. give it a try. >> i'll try not to. there's a verdict, guys in the legal drama over the song of 2013. ♪ it's a very easy song to get stock in your head. mugss musicians of "blurred lines" have to give it up. a court ruled it's too close to "give it up." i can hear the similarities.

gaye's family was awarded $7.3 million. they deny taking it from gaye's song. they plan to review legal options. the gaye family hopes to file an injunction to stop the sale of the song. >> listen the melodies aren't the same. some of the percussion the same. it's really pretty stunning. >> do you hear it. >> by the way i'm a huge marvin gaye fan. and i don't like the other dude. but thicke. in don't get it. they sound a little alike but it just doesn't rise to copyright infringement so says the expert lawyer. >> ecstasy, crystal meth and other drugs have been legalized

in ireland. they adjusted the legal technicality. there's a lag time and won't take effect until tomorrow. the ruling makes only the possession of the drugs legal while selling and supplying still remain a crime. people might be going crazy. >> okay. whatever. we have a big lineup coming up on "morning joe" a lot of reaction and analysis to hillary clinton's news conference including two reporters who have covered the clintons since the early '90s. we'll talk to they'd of the committee investigating benghazi. he has some of clinton's emails but he says he won't stop until he gets the server. >> two democrats who have endorsed hillary clinton for president in 2016 tim kaine and steny hoyer will be our guests. and latest developments out of oklahoma university when "morning joe" starts.

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