deny they do go together. but like peanut butter own jell ri or like diarrhea and polied monk push. >> good morning and welcome to "way too early." now, this is pretty remarkable. i don't know if you've heard about it but we're actually starting this morning with a documentary about a murder that is now the story itself and proves that real life can be stranger than fiction sometimes. just less than 24 hours ago new york real estate heir robert durst was arrested and he's now facing a charge of capital murder in the death of a friend of his in 2000. the arrest that has been decades in the making has been chalked up to new leads in evidence and some apparently in the hbo serious that we talked about on morning joe last month that examined the deaths of his wife's appearance. the final episode of the show delivered a final scene that was

a lot more shocking than any scripted series. it was an apparent confession from durst himself as he appears to be talking to himself in a bathroom while his microphone is still on. >> there it is. you're caught. you're right, of course. but you can't imagine. i'm having difficulty with the question. what the held did i do? killed them all, of course. >> nbc stephen gosing has more

on the series and how it helped put the durst investigation back in the spotlight. >> reporter: heir to a multibillion fortune sits in a jailhouse waiting extradition to california accused of a murder committed over a decade ago. we are relieved and also grateful to everyone who assisted in the arrest of robert durst. we hope he will finally be held accountable for all he's done. christmas eve 2000 susan bermen was killed in her l.a. home. at the time investigators may have suspected the now 71-year-old but there was no arrest. berman was durst's best friend and confidant. he denied murdering her. >> but they were able to put you in california. >> california is a big state. >> reporter: the documentary e re-examines the crime and the disappearance of his first wife

and the murder of his neighbor in texas raising the question many have asked, could he have murdered them all. they found him not guilty in the murder of his neighbor. he admitted to killing him but argued it was self-defense. >> based on the evidence that was presented to us there was reasonable doubt. >> reporter: now he faces another murder trial after his lawyers warned him not to take part in the documentary. >> they said about a stillon times you can't help yourself. right now you're a free man. you say something inadvertently and you'll find ourself charged in new york or charged in los angeles. >> reporter: the series uncovered new evidence including a letter addressed to susan bermen from durst. the handwriting and misspelling look similar to a letter police

received. >> is the information and the testimony of inconsistent statements and some handwriting samples enough to convict a person. >> whatever happens in the courtroom, the spotlight is back on durst. in part his own doing. >> robert durst should have listened to his lawyers. now we go to ferguson missouri where the attorney general is praising the swift arrest in connection with with a shooting of two police officers that were lined up outside of a police department inbetween themselves and protesters. a massive man hunt this city in ferguson led to the arrest of jeffrey williams. he was charged sunday with two counts of first degree assault and police say he's already admitted that he fired the shots that left those two officers wounded. nbc has more on the suspect and his apparent motive.

>> reporter: without warning the shots at least three rang out just after midnight early thursday morning outside ferguson police head quarters setting off a frantic scene. >> st. louis county prosecutor toys say this man allegedly fired those shots from a vehicle during what the prosecutor called some kind of dispute. authorities say williams has been charged with first degree assault on the officers. was he involved with protests? >> yes. he is a demonstrator. he was out there earlier that evening as part of the demonstration. >> reporter: you don't think he was targeting the police in. >> i wouldn't go that far. >> reporter: police called the incident an ambush as protesters gathered to demand more sweeping reforms all stemming from a report that accused the police

department of discrimination. an uneasy truce. the community is worried about more violence and confrontation. >> i'm asking all the protesters that is here for the wrong reason to stay out of our city. >> reporter: police say the officers are still at home and expected to recover. unclear what the reaction will be from my protestered who gather today to the arrest. the hope here of many is that everyone involved in all this will take a step back and let peace and quiet revail. >> boy, let us hope that's what happens. three british teenagers are out on bail this morning after allegedly trying to join isis. officials say the girls were caught in turkey and reunited in the united nations. why is it part of the troubling trend we keep reading about in the fight against the islamic

state militants? >> reporter: good morning. two 17-year-old boys from london and a 19-year-old man were detained in istanbul after a tipoff from britain that they were trying to join isis in syria. they were deported back to the united kingdom where they were arrested by police on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism. police would really like to know more about the network that recruited them. none has so far been charged and they are still being questioned. this comes just weeks after three other brittic teens, two girls aged 15 and a 16-year-old girl sis appeared from their homes in london. they were pictured on tv and they were seen again in istanbul boarding a bus and it's now thought they're with isis in syria. they were not stopped. it brought a huge row between

britain and turkey about who was responsible. they are still missing. the three boys isn't reach syria but this case once again illustrates the deadly magnet that isis is and also the difficulty authorities have from stopping people trying to join us. back to you. >> thank you so much bill. i just don't understand. i know most people in the west don't understand why young girls would leave a thriving democracy and head out to go help isis kill westerners, but fortunately in this case the three girls were caught before they crossed into syria. officials are indicating that the u.s. and iran are getting a lot closer to a historic but really controversial nuclear agreement as new rounds of talks begin today. american and european officials say the key sticking points

include how soon un sanctions would be removed and how the inspections could be conducted. secretary of state yesterday said the remaining on tackles are mostly political but he's also warning a potential deal could be affected by the 47 republican senators who signed a controversial letter to iran. >> the effect and the intent of the author was to basically say don't do this deal and by the way, that's to say that before there is even a deal. it's like you know giving people a grade on a test before the test is even written let alone given. >> are you going to apologize for this let sner. >> not on your life. i'm not going to apologize for the unconstitutional and unthought out action by someone who's been in the united states senate for 60 some day nchs that's inappropriate. >> nearly one week later the man who wrote the letter says he's

got no regrets. >> are you planning to contact any other of our adversaries around the country? for example, do you plan to check with the north koreans to make sure that they know that any deal has to be approved by the congress? >> right now ai am focussed on stopping iran from getting a nuclear weapon. that's why it's important that we communicated to them. we sent a clear message to a regime. we didn't coddle or conciliate with them. we told them that the american people 71% of the american people in a recent poll will not accept a deal. >> how funny. do you plan to contact anymore of your enemies? mitch mcconnell said he ain't saying he's sorry either and says it was appropriate to warn

iran that congress has to be involved in any deal. let's turn to business. the dow and s&p fell for the third straight week. meanwhile the price of oil continues to plum et. now down to $46 a barrel and overseas the euro hit a new 12 year low against the u.s. dollar. pack your bags kids. we're going to europe this summer. live from london carolyn, other than being good for american tourists that go overseas in the summer what does it mean for american investors and for the future of our dollar? >> we've been seeing a lot of investment into european shares. in fact the outflows from the u.s. equity funds have been staggering. why is that happening? that's of course because virgin monetary policy from the esb and the fed. the esb has last week launched

from euro stimewe plus package. the fed is getting closer to raising rates. they might be dropping the word patient as early as this week but you can do vacationing in europe. let's talk about protests over the weekend in austin, texas at the south by southwest conference. we saw protests against robots by an organization called stop the robots and this group, they want to raise awareness about the dangers of artificial intelligence and they're aimed at one specific company called sky net. >> now we've heard it all. anti-robot protests. hey, mom, i'm going to be leaving this weekend to protest against robots in texas. that's a little strange. let's talk about st. patrick's

day. obviously festivities tomorrow. a lot of americans and people across the globe will enjoy a pint or two or maybe five of the irish beer. but what is begin isz going to keep the party going longer? >> that's a really good question. every year on st. patrick's day worldwide 13 million pints of guinness is being consumed. in fact the consumption in the u.s. has been declining in recent years. the mother company is looking at boosting the consumption of it into the warmer summer months and they're sponsoring summer soccer tournament and also introducing guiness blank and also looking at going into the craft brewery business. we'll see if that flies. >> all right. thank you so much. really appreciate it. by the way, do you know guiness?

you're all about being skinny and healthy. it only has like 120 calories. vodka will get you fat. is it time for the clintons to tell james carville to stop talking. he may have added more fuel to the fire and you can call it hip hop diplomacy. we'll tell you why nelly was in iraq over the weekend. that and the weather when we get back to you.

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well there are new developments this morning in the hillary clinton e-mail controversy. a fact sheet released last week said that a keyword search was used to search through the

e-mails. time magazine reported this week it did not involve opening and reading each e-mail. instead they created a list of key words related to work and searched for those but on sunday a spokesperson issued a clarification saying the office did read each and every e-mail before deciding which were prooit. meanwhile speaker john boehner is expected to announce a new investigation from the clinton e-mail practices during her time as secretary of state. and as one side prepares an attack the other side in washington d.c. jumps to her defense. here's james carville on abc's "this week". >> you wonder why the public is not following this? because they know what it is. it was something that he did. it was legal. i suspect she didn't want someone rifling through her

e-mails which could be a reasonable position for someone to take. it amounts to just like everything else before it, it amounts to nothing but a bunch of people flapping their jaws about nothing. >> whatever. i love you but you can have a controversy and then cover everything up that would get you in trouble and say see? there was nothing there. and, yeah. more things change the more they stay the same. let's go to something happy like college sports and begin with college basketball. top ranked university of kentucky go big blue. they improved and wrapped up the sec crown. they made arkansas. no surprise. the wildcats locked up the top ncaa tournament number one seed. when all the brackets were announced on the sunday selection. let's look at all the top seeds. kentucky.

number one and out of the midwest then there's villanova who's number in the east. duke number one in the south and west wisconsin is number one seed for the first time in the program's history. the madness tips off on tuesday. let's get a check now on weather with our meteorologist bill karins. i've got to tell you my dad would be to happy. he and my mom dragged from kentucky and they dragged us around throughout the south to follow all the greats but this is about as dominant a kentucky team as i've seen in 40 years. >> when you watch them play it's like watching an nba all-star game. >> there was a tweet it's in kentucky versus the field, take kentucky. who can beat them. >> i know. i'm struggling to fix something. it's hard not to pick kentucky. we still haven't heard reports

ant vanuatu. it's quite there. it's not safe for anyone there and the pictures we have in the region just show a lot of structures levelled. these don't look too bad. i've seen worse than these pictures but 60,000 people on these islands and it was the worse to hit. they need a lot of aid and help. let's talk about what happened yesterday in boston. much of the country was warm. boston boston it was not. another 3 inches of snow. we finally broke the record. 108.6 inches that beat the winter of 95 and 96. we're not done yet. you could still get more. the warmth from yesterday was incredible. we were in the 90s in l.a. 92 in long beach. we were in the mid 70s as far north as fargo, north dakota. you usually are still buried in

the snow in fargo this time of year. another record breaking day across the country. 78 in st. louis. oklahoma city at 80 degrees and then in new england we're at 46 in boston. new york will be 55 today which will feel warm. it's really crazy weather map this spring. >> we could use some of the fargo fargo weather. give me that. thanks so much. still ahead the roast of martha stew art cooked up this weekend and it has nothing to do with me. before larry instantly transferred money from his bank of america savings account to his merrill edge retirement account. before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling winter an "underserved season". and before he quit his friend's leaf-raking business for "not offering a 401k." larry knew the importance of preparing for retirement. that's why when the time came he counted on merrill edge to streamline his investing and help him plan for the road ahead.

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it's time to get a check on the other headlines. other at the cooler. what are we looking at? >> what's in martha stewart, and shack all have in common. they took shots at justin beaner for the annual roast after enduring several hours he closed the night with an apology. he said the things i've done don't define who i am. i love people and through it all i lost some of my best qualities. for all that i'm sorry. what i can say is i'm looking bard to being someone who you guys can look at and be proud of. >> good for bieber.

i like that. >> let's see if he sticks to it. it airs on march 30th. also things you never expected to hear. nelly was in iraq on friday. the st. louis rapper welcomed to the country. nelly then performed at the charity event. it was raising money for the kurdish force fighting isis in iraq. >> how about nelly? that is really cool. >> very cool. >> you go over there and raise money for people fighting isis. good on you. let's bring in mika with a preview of what's coming up next. >> we're going to talk about a lot over the next three hours. much more on the man arrested for the shooting of to police officers in ferguson. this morning was the suspect part of the protests and were the officers his intended

targets. and a senator and representative here to join us and the alleged murder confession whispered inside a bathroom that's being heard around the world now. more on the robert durst documentary that may have read to the undoing of durst. plus another big question this morning what i've been hearing about this. where is vladimir putin? is he okay? i'm saying. it's a question. >> all right. thanks so much mika. that and a lot more coming up on a packed "morning joe". we'll see you in a few seconds. . i was determined to create new york city's first self-serve frozen yogurt franchise. and now you have 42 locations. the more i put into my business the more i get out of it. like 5x your rewards when you make select business purchases with your ink plus card from chase. and with ink, i choose how to redeem my points for things like cash or travel. how's the fro-yo? just peachy...literally.

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