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welcome to week skwrepbdz"weekends with alex witt" witt". meeting with european allies on ongoing nuclear tikes with iran. the u.s. european nations and china recessed yesterday. >> recessing. >> and when will you rejoin? >> next week. we made a lot of progress. >> march 31st is the deadline for a framework agreement, final agreement must be in hand by the end of june. kristen welker following this from the white house this morning. with a good morning to you my friend. can we take what we hear from the fact that the talks recessed just four days you know they've broken for all of that time now. it's just a little more than a week before the deadline. what are you taking from that? >> hey alex. well, good morning to you. the official reason is the iranian new year. so the talks were always going to break for a few days over the weekend. also the mother of the iranian president passed away. his brother is one of the

negotiators. so the entire negotiating team left to attend that funeral. some people raising their eyebrows about that. but there is no doubt, alex there are still deep differences despite the fact that you heard secretary kerry say they did make a lot of progress. two of the major sticking points, the issue of centrifuges. how many should iran be allowed to have to enrich uranium? they are saying 6,000. critics are saying it should be much lower. iranians want it to be much higher. iran wants sanctions lifted immediately once a deal is in place. u.s. and european allies say, no, it should be fazed out over time. and only if iran is following through with the terms of the deal. still a lot to work through, alec. as you point out, they have only days left to accomplish this. they still put the chances for getting a deal at about 50/50.

so there's really measured optimistic here. as you point out, the first deadline for getting the framework for a deal comes in a few days. but the ultimate deadline comes in june. president obama signaling they are not going to extend this again. so really saying it's now or never. >> the president took his own message on the nuclear talks, directly to iranian people yesterday in that statement. it was marking the persian new year. let's take a listen to that. >> days and weeks ahead will be critical. they have made progress but gaps remain. there are people who oppose a diplomatic resolution. my message to you, people of iran, together we have to speak up for the future we seek. >> so the president is speaking directly to iranians. how unusual is this? >> well it is unusual. he releases one of these messages every year to mark the

iranian new year. this is certainly unique because he is reaching out to the iranian people essentially trying to get them on board to pressure their leader to move forward with this deal. but he got some criticism for this alex. iranian hard liners saying look just let the talks play out. the president injecting himself in this way could undercut the negotiations. the white house unapologetic saying look this is one of the key foreign policy goals. so he does want to be part of these discussions in the final days and, remember, the white house also urging congress to stay out of these negotiations. congress saying it deserves a say. it would like to pass legislation essentially saying no deal is finalized until congress signs off on it. so the white house urging congress to stay out of this. at the same time the president very much interjecting himself. >> thanks kristen. now to the weather and the cleanup after a snowstorm hit the mid atlantic and northeast

on the first day of spring. parts of pennsylvania got seven inches of snow. >> i'm really looking forward to spring. but this is really not the first day of spring i imagined. >> another shot of cold air over the weekend. temperatures in the northeast will drop 10 to 15 degrees below average. >> don't want to hear that. for more let's turn to dr. greg postel. good morning greg. >> reporter: good morning, alex. the big stories overall relatively calm. let's have a look at the big picture today with the temperatures. not too bad at least yet in the northeast. 50 in new york city. it's going to be coming down a little bit by tomorrow. but there's the rain in the south texas and louisiana, mississippi. temperatures in the low 60s. that rain tomorrow moves to the southeast, gets to atlanta. 59 for a high there. but, look new york high on sunday of 38. and check this out. a little bit of a snow shower activity. a little clipper system moving

towards perhaps southern wisconsin, northern illinois tomorrow night, early sunday morning. not a lot of winter weather there. just a little bit. i think the big story winter wise is the cooling trend in the northeast. look at some of these numbers. 20 degrees below average for this time of year. yes, it is early spring. but it certainly doesn't feel like it. alex, back to you. >> over it. thank you very much. overseas now. the white house is casting down on whether members of isis carried out the brutal suicide bombings in yemen friday that left 137 dead. here's white house press secretary josh earnest. >> we cannot at this point confirm the voracity of the claims of these extremists that are affiliated with the islamic state. there is not at this point clear evidence of an operational link between these extremists in

yemen and isil fighters in iraq and syria. >> those bombings injured 300 people. at the time of the attacks, both mosques were packed for friday prayers. joining me now for more is retired army colonel jack jacobs and military analyst. first up do you think isis was behind the attacks? >> it's hard to say exactly, but my bet is no. isis is a master of the media. they like to ahead of the story. they like to seize the story. isis has a tendency to claim responsibility for every bit of mayhem that one sees. i think if they felt they could get away with it, they would claim responsibility for global warming. my guess is no, they were not responsible. >> if the attacks were done in the name of isis and weren't operationally carried out by full-fledged members, should they be considered in isis attacks. how does that change the way the international community

responds? >> isis is very much different than most terror organizations. al qaeda is a franchise operation. isil has a strict hierarchy, commanders, subcommanders. their objectives are to seize and hold terrain. it's that that informs us how we are supposed to respond to it. and the response is very much different than if it's just a terrorist organization not trying to seize and hold terrain. >> i want to switch gears here. a new interview in the "washington post" with david petraeus that says it is the shiite militias that is not isis that is the foremost threat to iraq. they were fighting the u.s. troops. are they now -- the tip of the spear, the ground war against isis do you agree with general petraeus about that? >> that's what makes it so difficult for the united states. they are actually trying to defeat multiple organizations with different kinds of objectives. but general petraeus is right

about the threat to our interests in the region because the shiite militias have is always been extremely difficult. they have always been opposed to us. they have always been against us and always been supervised trained and run by iran. you remember years ago when we were talk building the war, the middle of the war, talking about the ahmadi army and so on supervised by and actually underwritten by iran. so i think over the longer term general petraeus is right. the single biggest threat to an iraq that holds together are the shiite militia. >> okay. colonel jack thank you very much, as always sir. louisiana police say a man who was shot several times by authorities during attack at new orleans international airport is being treated for his wounds this morning. officials say it all started when the man approached a

security check point. nbc stephanie gosk is in new york with all the details. good morning stephanie. >> reporter: hey there. the airport is back up and running. but that was not the scene last night. it was just a normal friday. people getting ready for their weekend when they heard the gunfire. one of the witnesses described it as bam, bam, bam. and then complete chaos. people running for cover. they say they saw richard white with a machete in his hand over his head swinging at the tsa officers. a female tsa officer confronted him and shot him. that tsa officer is injured and in the hospital this morning as is white. this was a terrifying scene. it really could have been a lot worse. terrifying moments overnight noticed louie armstrong international airport. the panic erupted just before 8:00 local time. when police say richard white, armed with cans of wasp spray and a machete, tried to get past

several tsa agents. >> he was challenged at that point in time by the tsa officer. the response was he pulled a can of wasp spray and sprayed the officer in the face >> reporter: white didn't stop there, spraying a second officer as he tried to get past security. it was then he pulled out a machete and started swinging. >> he proceeded past that checkpoint. he sprayed the male in the face. he struck the female with a machete >> reporter: then moments later shots rang out. three bullets hitting white, fired by another police officer. >> did you see the exchange between him and the officers gunfire? >> i didn't see her get injured, but i saw her starting to back up and then shooting three shots. >> reporter: people ran for safety trying to get away from the gunfire as quickly as possible. witnesses describe the chaotic scene on social media, posting

video and pictures for the world to see. white was taken to the hospital and underwent surgery. police later say white did not hit the tsa agent with the machete, but that agent and several other people received medical treatment for minor injuries. several people were injured in the melee in the hospital. of those injuries they are minor. they are expected to be released. they are still looking into motive. they can't figure out why white did this. back to you. >> all right. stephanie gosk thank you so much for that. now an update on that man found hanging from a tree in mississippi this week. officials have identified him as otis james byrd a 54-year-old who had been missing for two weeks. they say results from an autopsy could be ready for next week and it will tell them if his death was a suicide or homicide. msnbc's joy reed is in port gibson mississippi. with a good morning to you. what are investigators focusing

on? >> reporter: well, good morning, alex. investigators are doing a wide-ranging investigation. they are focusing on looking at a storage unit that was owned by mr. byrd waiting for the results of that autopsy. and they are seeking surveillance video from the casino where he was last known to have spent the last day that any of his family and friends saw him. so they are seeking that surveillance video as well. and just continuing to talk with people in this area in a claiborne county. they have spoken to members of the family, with neighbors and anyone who may have seen or spoke with mr. byrd before he obviously disappeared and then lost his life. >> absolutely. talk about the history that he had. because he did spend time in prison. but what i've read people who have come out and say things about him, say he was a quiet, gentle man post that time. >> reporter: yeah. we actually spoke with someone this morning who knew him and said he was quiet and kept to

himself. back in 1980 he was involved in an armed robbery in which he shot and killed a store clerk. he spent 26 years in prison in that case but came out of prison in 2006. and those who we spoke with here, including the sheriff, said he was quiet. the sheriff would see him from time to time in church. and he was known to be a quiet man, can kept to himself. the sheriff tell me he didn't have any known enemies. he didn't know of any conflicts he had been in. and said i don't know when asked if he had been suicidal or had any sort of depression. nothing remarkable steps out in his life that makes it easier for investigators to figure out what happened. >> is there an expectation when we will have all the answers, joy? >> reporter: it could be days tore a week before the autopsy result comes back. no real-time line coming from the sheriff here. at this point it's pretty much a wait and see. >> joy reed thank you so much for being out in the rain for us. appreciate the live report >> well the fbi is now long

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federal investigators are now looking into whether illinois republican aaron schock miss spent campaign and political funds. he announced tuesday he would resign and give up his seat at the end of the month. the announcement came after a number of reports alleging misuse of government funds. let's bring in political reporter from the "washington post". colby, with a good morning to you. >> good morning. >> can you tell me what investigators are looking for? >> well they'll be looking at a number of things. after my colleague ben harris reported that aaron schock decorated his office to look at downton abbey, they found a number of suspicious spending from his government and campaign account, mileage reimbursements that didn't match up to his

odometer. travel that wasn't reported. taking a professional photographer around the world to take pictures for his instagram account. all of these things is what they are going to be looking at. >> looking at the article you wrote on wednesday, the congressman will likely be able to collect his pension when he reaches 62. anything that could stand in the way of that? that he could lose that pension? >> as of 2012 they made that a little harder for congressional criminals. if fbi does convict him or charge him with any criminal activity, there is a chance he would lose his pension. but as of right now, if he just resigns because of ethical inquiries, he would still receive a tax payer funded check when he retires at 62. frankly, the congressmen are serving time in jail who still receive their pensions because the stricter laws weren't put in place until a couple of years ago. >> he would get $18,500 from that pension every year.

>> from tax payers. >> exactly. good point. he is the only house member born in the 1980s. one of the youngest members of congress. he was considered an up-and-comer in the party. is there a clue as to what happened here? >> my colleague gives out a worst week in washington and aaron schock was the easy vote getter on that one. and chris focused on the fact that aaron is a mill lessen yells and what this said about our generation. you can't paint everyone where the same brush. but there is something about people in their 20s and 30s that care a lot about their brand. they care about how they appear. and everything about aaron schock was very manufactured, very manicured. he wanted to make sure everyone saw him, you know surfing shirtless in hawaii and traveling and spending time with the pope and in london and india. and he focused a lot more on his image than he focused on getting work done in congress. >> you know with what that

makes sense. we are generalizing but it is what it is. the president informs cleveland on wednesday. let's listen to what he said there. >> in australia and other countries there's mandatory voting. it would be transform active if everybody voted. that would counteract money more than anything. if everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country. >> you know those remarks are a bit of a firestorm. what's the fall out? >> well it is a freedom of speech issue. you can't force people to vote. the constitution wouldn't allow it. the option to vote out of voting is a constitutional right. i think what the president is getting at is only 37% of eligible voters voted in the last midterm election. there's not a lot of voter precipitation. and there tends to be the

people who don't vote are younger, poorer disenfranchised. and we have this polarization in congress. look, we are getting nothing done. maybe if some of those voters who aren't so ideological were able to vote, you would -- wouldn't see such polarization in congress. but to the president's point it would take money out of politics experts say that's probably not true. sure, you wouldn't have to spend as much money as get out the vote, but there is ad spending and staff and all of those things. yeah the president was maybe overstepping a little on that one. >> okay. colby, thank you so much. >> thank you. a promising new step for amazon's plan to deliver packages my drone. why it could take years for this dream to come true. before we go to break, sorry to burst your bubble. magnum pi fans the obamas aren't buying the estate.

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welcome back to "weekends with alex witt". secretary kerry spoke moments ago from switzerland.

russia's foreign ministry announced the next rupdound of talks is thursday. just over a week ago. john yarmouth member of the budget committee and energy and commerce committee. representative, it's always good to see you, sir. >> good morning, alex. >> this deal is going to cut nuclear capabilities by 40%. in return they would get quick relief from economic sanctions. are you satisfied with what you are seeing so far? >> well, i am, alex. i and a group of other members were briefed by the white house just on thursday. and this is a great opportunity for the world to basically put a hold and actually degrade the capabilities of the iranians to do any nuclear weapon by at least 10 years. and what's important to recognize is that there is doctor there are very few alternatives to this kind of arrangements. we have an unprecedented situation in which the obama administration has been able to get the cooperation of the

russians and the chinese, the security council. even japan and south korea are helping with putting the economic crunch on iran that has brought them to the table. so i think this is a really rare opportunity for us to make a huge progress in limiting the ability of the iranians to develop a nuclear weapon. >> okay. let's take a quick listen to what the secretary was taking a few moments ago. >> we are united in our goal our approach, our resolve, and our determination to ensure that iran's program is entirely peaceful. >> let's pick up on united and perhaps look at it from a domestic perspective. for all the rancor of the talks, and certainly there was the letter to iran what do you think the actual political impact will be if a deal is finally struck? >> well i think it will be unfortunate if the opponents of the deal try to sabotage it. i know the other day that

senator corker and senator mennen dez decided not to have a vote until mid-april. i think that was the responsible thing to do. again, i think right now all the bluster that you have heard is people saying that the deal is a bad deal even though they don't know what is in it. i think the president will make a compelling case of not only is this a a good deal but it is a deal without any alternatives exempt for taking military action to stop the iranians from developing a nuclear program. so, again, i think the case will be strong. and i think at that point the political opposition to it will disappear. but i know people will try to stop this deal. >> as you know this comes at a period that has got to be the nater of u.s. president netanyahu's statement

and three days later he backtracked. what are the big picture implications of this? i think this was a serious mistake on the prime minister's part saying that he was opposed to it a two-state solution. that's the united states foreign policy. i think the administration has been and many of us have been very frustrated that the israeli government taken steps with us increasing settlements that they are going to make a two-state solution more difficult. but there's really no alternative to that. anybody who has lifted the israeli situation says if we don't develop a two-state solution that ultimately demographics will make israel primarily an arab state. and that if you want to maintain israel as a democracy and as a somewhat of a jewish state, that you have to do -- make a deal like this. so, again, i think he has setback the cause very very

significantly. and i think if he really wants to be on record as a two-state solution, he has to start acting in a way that would promote that rather than taking steps that actually make that solution much more difficult. >> an up named white house official quoted by the "new york times" says president obama, by the way in a conversation two days after he declared victory in that election he told prime minister netanyahu he would reassess the options in israel. what does that look like that reassessment? >> i think that primarily relates to actions in the united nations to make the palestinian authority a state, recognized as a country. and so far in the security council, the united states has been the one nation that has actually prevented that from happening. so i think that's probably the first step. i don't think there's really any threat of the united states reducing its economic and military assistance to israel or continuing to cooperate in

intelligence and so forth. but i think in terms of recognition of the palestinian state, that's a possibility that reassessment would hold. >> i'm curious. because on election day, prime minister netanyahu put out a video statement in which the right wing government is in danger. left wing organizations are bussing them out. to be clear, these are israeli citizens. is it fair to compare that to an american politician warning about, say, african-american or hispanic voters coming out in droves and what would the response be in the u.s.? >> the response would be outrage. they are entirely analogous. it is a perfect comparison. and i think there has been widespread outrage. not just in israel but also throughout the american jewish community. many conservative jews who support netanyahu are very very disappointed in that and feel very strongly that that doesn't

represent the mission or the tradition of israeli society. so, again, this was totally uncalled for rhetoric. and he ought to a apologize for it. and he really hasn't. >> congressman yarmouth as a pleasure. thank you so much >> thanks, alex. developing now in brooklyn new york. seven children are dead after a fire tore through a house in the early hours of this morning. the youngest victim just 5 years old. another child and a woman are now in critical condition. joining us from the scene is nbc's ron mott. with a a good morning. what are you hearing from first responders on the scene? >> reporter: hi there, a alex. otherwise picturesque scene but a devastating, tragic story as you mentioned developing overnight. seven children dead in a house fire. fire officials just came down to give us notice about a briefing that we are expect to go hear within an hour. the house is on the right side of the camera about five or six houses in. i walked by an hour ago. and you can't tell from the

front of the house that there was a fire. there is a big picture window on the second floor that looks like it has been knocked out. perhaps the fire was on the backside of the house. seven children in all ranging in ages from 5 to 15. two people in that house in critical condition as we understand it at two separate hospitals. an adult female as we understand, and another child. we spoke to a neighbor here just a few moments ago who says a very well liked family. very well respected. the neighborhood is in a bit of shock about this fire. as you know the weather turned wintry here friday. the snow is still lightly falling here. and so we don't know what caused this fire. perhaps also heat may have been turned back on. we don't know that for sure. we are expect to go get details a little later this morning, alex. >> a terrible tragedy. thank you so much, ron mott for the story >> cyber bullying is the focus of a a new internet video.

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because the gun charge coupled with the drugs that were found in his room that's possession with drugs. so that's a mandatory minimum, alex of five years. so to me that's a pretty big deal. obviously it's not a murder charge. but that is five years and will be more than he has ever done before. >> during that same interview, his attorney said there was no coincidence he was served with a warrant right after that final episode of his show on hbo. let's take a listen to what he said there. >> if we try this case and when we try to case we're going to try it on facts and not on a tv program. >> okay. so those hot mic statements that he made, he was muttering to himself, didn't know the cameras were on. would those be admissible in a trail. >> first of all, alex we know that the golden rule is what? shut up right? shut up shut up, shut up.

so the fact that he went on to hbo and voluntarily, against his attorney's wishes. any attorney will be foolish to say, yeah go ahead. there are four or five legal theories that would make them in admissible. you could go on and back and forth. ultimately it will be a judge. but there's hearsay. whether the communication was unlawful. whether or not his mic was hot. but at the end of the day they said it's over done. are we done here. yes. i'm just going to go to the bathroom before i leave. he seems to be having a conversation with himself, not another party. he's muttering to himself. that's not a confession. will it be admissible? unlikely. however, it's up to a judge to decide. if i was an attorney i would file a brief with at least five good legal theories saying it is not admissible. >> he was asked about a number of cold cases they could put him

in the area. let's take a listen to what he said about that. >> this disappearance in eureka california, the police chief just came out and said there's no evidence he had anything to do with that. and some woman got murdered in san francisco at the same time that bob durst was there. hell there were 2 million people in fran when that happened. there's no evident. there's no linkage. i mean maybe the next thing we'll hear is he's responsible for the disappearance of jimmy hoffa. >> do you think robert durst has become an easy target? >> well he made himself an easy target alex. he went on hbo. yes, there's cold cases. but there's a lot of information there. of course people will crawl out of the woodwork. that and the fact he's worth $100 million. he made himself the target. but there are three bodies in his wake. where there's smoke, there's fire. yes. but, again, he's got a lot of money. he can afford the best legal team. and, you know now that he has

put his face out there, there might be witness testimony, people remembering. he's been good at being able to hide his identity. he can't do that anymore. >> no, he sure can't. thank you so much. kids say the darnedest things. but tweets can have a tragic effect. how cyber bullying goes from tease to go terrorizing. know your numbers, and stay focused. 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. ink from chase. so you can. ♪ at kraft we start with quality ingredients all expertly blended to make our mayo. so you can take whatever you're making from good to amazing.

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salon or dry cleaner do your parents own? >> allen's voice is so annoying it makes me wish i was deaf. >> hey, devon, nice -- >> holly has a face that only diabetes could love. >> is it racist if i don't like black people because of how much i hate sierra? >> you are a huge loser. >> no one likes you. do everything a favor, just kill yourself. >> joining me now is the president of the canadian safe school network. welcome to you. i'm curious about the response you've gotten. besides the obvious jimmy kimmel aspect of the campaign talk about the response. >> the response has been huge. we're getting -- it's gone viral, this video is now being seen around the world. it's into the millions. it's doing its job. it's catching people's attention. the reason it is is because it's real. we've touched a chord here.

since when did showcasing nastiness make sense or be funny. we've taken a flip on the kimmel segment and flipped it around where there's a laugh track that goes to quiet. if you go on celebrity mean tweets on the show you see people laughing throughout the segment. that's not funny. we're showcasing it's not funny. >> it's also with those celebrities, they are people who put themselves in the public eye. they may have a tougher skin than much more sensitive and younger, less mature kids. do you talk about bullying -- it's so different today compared when we were kids. it follows kids. it's on their computers, cell phones. it's public for everyone to see. how much more difficult is dealing with bullying today in this age of social media? >> it's huge. we're talking about going online and what kids have posted it's

permanent. essentially permanent. we know 27% of kids in the united states have been bullied online. 21%. that's an amazing number. we also know that teen suicide is up. ten times the kids that are being bullied are ten times likely to commit suicide. this is a very very serious issue. and, you know, the jimmy kimmel show is not doing us any help to sort things like this out. >> is there some things that specifically instigated this program for you? >> it was an advertising company that came to us about how to deal with cyber bullying. al they showed to me. i saw it. i wasn't familiar with the segment, but when i saw it it was outrageous. we decided we would do something about it. if he's going to showcase

nastiness we're going to show what can help. this has gone viral, that's the demonstration. that something needs to be done about this. when you look at the laugh track on kimmel's program, that just is there throughout what's the message? the message is that this is supposedly funny. we know it's not. we know it's damaging. >> you know can you tell me what it's like for those kids to read those tweets? particularly at the end of the clip that we saw there. it's quiet as you said no laugh track. and these kids look pained. >> well that's the punchline. the punchline is you start with a laughter. and the track runs so that you've got the first two or three tweets where there's background laughter. it disapates until the punch line hits. the this is not funny. the quiet line at the end of the video captured people's attention. it's powerful. >> very much so.

where did you get the kids? >> they were casted. they were actors that we picked at -- john street picked up. the tweets are real. they were taken off the internet. by the way, alex they're not as raw as what you find. go to the internet at any time and you'll see the gory stuff that we didn't put on. >> i got to tell you, i've got two kids and every once in a while i do searches. i can't believe what they're dealing with. thank you so much. good luck with that. >> my pleasure. i hope that people will go to our website and do their best to support our campaign. >> appreciate that. that's a wrap of this hour of weekends with alex witt. up with steve kornacki. be sure to join me for a two hour edition of the show at noon today. that's why we switched to charmin ultra mega roll. it's charmin quality and long lasting. with more go's per roll, it pays to use charmin ultra mega roll. charmin ultra mega roll is 75% more absorbent

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