working to confirm that. and all special troops and operations have been moved out. and houthi has seized the third largest city and the former president who was forced to step down. they stormed the international airport and conducted air-strikes against yemen's democratically elected president since being ousted by the houthis back in january. and they vow to take on all al qaeda fighters. u.s. air-strikes have been targeting aqap operatives since 2002. last month another top leader was killed in an american drone strike. this reads like a who's who. the muslim brotherhood and other militants teaming up.

an envoy to yemen warned on monday that yemen will slide into further conflict. he said any local player who could tip the scales will make it worse than the conflicts in iraq, syria, libya combined. but president obama called it a counter-terrorism success story. >> the strategy of taking out terrorists and supporting those on the front lines is something we have found a success in yemen for many years. >> but president obama reacted differently to savannah guthrie. >> yemen is a tough country. they have always been fragile. the governments haven't been strong. but on the other hand we've been able to maintain pressure on al qaeda in that region. >> are we safer under your

watch. >> i believe we are safer, but that doesn't mean we aren't concerned about the break-down in in order in this reege -- region generally. >> and now they don't want instability to spread further into the region. >> obviously the situation in yellen is a dangerous one. there continues to be ongoing security cooperation between the united states and the national security infrastructure of the hadi government. that cooperation would be more effective if there were u.s. personnel in the country. >> with so much unraveling in yemen and the rise of isis across the country, led's bring in gideon rose the author of the foreign affairs e book the isis crisis. so the president told us yemen was a success story and it doesn't appear that way now. how did the situation there get so bad and how does this affect american security right now? >> well the yemen, as the

president said in the second address you made has always been a mess. it was an open civil war but it calmed down but it is fragile. it is driven by a lot of different tensions an con -- and conflicts. so it hasn't gotten worse, it has always been bad. they probably overly hyped the success to make it look better than it was early. and how this affects u.s. interests, particularly in the homeland is not clear. it is not like they are setting up missile bases to launch missiles at new york and washington any time soon. so this is yet another example of a middle eastern state in chaos, syria, iraq libya and yemen, in which the jihadists are finding good fertile ground like a pietrie dish for

spreading their own flag there. >> that seems like the real problem in terms of direct impact on the u.s. as toure was saying we did have to pull u.s. personnel and we have launched drone strikes that killed a lot of top leaders of aqap and been able to successfully disrupt terror plots being planned from yemen. and how have those people being pulled affected that. >> it is not known. some thinks it makes thing worse and others say it gets plots in warning. but the real issue is we like to have our con flicks and short and sweet and neat with good and bad guys with a clear beginning and an ending and we come in and save the day and go home.

but these are the exact opposite. there are bad guys and more bad guys and even worse bad guys and more hostile to us. and the regimes are in chaos and there is more we can do if we don't want to recolonize these places. and what the administration is trying to do and won't say so openly, is contain the problem and limit it and push back gradually along with local partners to make sure things don't explode even further and somehow over time get better. but it is not going to be happy. what is going on in yemen is a example of how things can get worse before they get better and even success stories can fall apart a little bit. but the better news is these are not terrorists by enlarge who are like old school al qaeda trying to bloes us up here in -- blow us up here in the states. they are more interested in local control and isis is a regional phenomenon and not global. >> and we talk about isis and

they appear to be the greatest success in recruiting people. but what does this mean for a group like al qaeda that i don't think we spend as much time talking about. when this happens in yemen, it seems like a vacuum is created. should we be concerned they will fill this void and find a new opportunity to gain some power here? >> well it is a fascinating question. because you could make the case -- someone on our website wrote an article arguing that isis -- that al qaeda is now the enemy of our enemy and isis a greater danger immediately and so we can use al qaeda to play off of against isis. i'm not sure i would entirely go that far. but there is a whole jihadist movement not necessarily unified and al qaeda now -- old-school al qaeda is not the worst threat out there. isis is the hottest brand in global jihadism you might say and the question is how can it be pressured so it doesn't get a further foot hold elsewhere

while letting its own contradictions in extremism ultimately discredit it in its own home base. this will be a couple of years if not more. >> and you see that in tunisia where they were critical of hitting a mosque. and you trace the ebb and flow of terrorism in iraq in the e-book and you said by toppleing the saddam regime and failing to put anything in its place, the bush administration created the conditions for its fears to be realized and within a few years radical jihadists were crucial players in iraq and then by the time the last the u.s. combat troops were left in iraq at the end of 2011 radical islamists terrorisms was once again low and so what is the takeaway. >> you can have order and

stability in this region but it comes at a high price. syria was stable under assad. and iraq was stable before saddam hussein before we toppled him. but we don't like that stability because it is violent and tyranny and there isn't enough basis for nice happy democracies at this point so you could make syria stable again if you backed assad full-scale end of stop almost like the way we back the saudis who are nice and happy rulers in saudi arabia. but we don't want that in syria or ally with assad and so the question is if you don't like the tire rants -- tyrants maintaining order are you prepared to deal with the chaos when the tyrants go. that is what we see in libya and iraq and in syria now. unfortunately, there aren't better options. so it is like pick your poison.

do you want the peace of the grave or chaos and civil war for a while until things sort themselves out and hopefully down the road they get better. >> that is not a good choice at all. >> not a good choice. >> you referenced this sort of military aesthetic and we are sort of a john wayne or rambo sort of nation and we like to roll in and kick butt and get out and that is not happening with isis. they have been shrunk in iraq but they are expanding in syria but expanding in africa and other places. are we losing the war against isis at this point? >> don't think -- i don't think we're losing the war against isis on the ground in iraq they are being gradually pushed back and over time, i have hopes hopes, along with other people that they can be progrossively defeated -- progressively defeated and detained and crunched backwards. but they are met afta sizing and picking up affiliates and once

you have a hot brand everybody wants to join it. so every attack in middle east is by some isis affiliate. it is not like they are giving the orders from some small hut in eastern syria. they are taking advantage of a sort of chaotic region to present themselves as a strong force. we're not losing but we're not winning particularly quickly. and it will be a long slow struggle. the worst part is there is no really great answer better than what we are doing. if we abandon the region entirely it will get worse. but if we went in with both feet, you end up sitting on the problem like we did in iraq which didn't make it better and caused us grief in the short-term. so i don't think, unfortunately, there is all that much great alternative to the policy the administration is putting forward. but it is not a happy one to sell. >> for more on all of this. check out gideon rose's new e book the isis crisis or keep

watching "the cycle." and out of charlottesville, police reveal the results of their investigation into the widely publicized investigation at uva. and new results in the case against millionaire robert durst. and we'll tell you what happened in court today. and cruz makes it official. we'll tell you what everybody is talking about, including us. "the cycle" rolls on on a busy monday, march 23rd, abby.

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first in and first out. well ted cruz hopes not. in front of a jam-packed crowd at liberty university in

virginia, cruz became the first 2016 hopeful to officially announce his presidential run. >> the power of the american people when we rise up and stand for liberty knows no bounds. i believe in you. i believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of america. and that is why today i am announcing that i'm running for president of the united states. >> joining us for reaction is perry bacon, at the big event today and wrote about it for nbc news.com. perry, it is good to see you. >> good to see you, krystal. >> how was the energy in the room and what can we gleam the

lane he wants to occupy? >> the lane he wants to occupy is two. one the evangelical lane and that is why he was at liberty, and so that lane and then the tea party lane. he talked today about he wants a flat tax, he wants to get rid of the irs, he wants to repeal obama care. these are ideas that the conservative parts of the republican party want to appeal to. so think about him in terms of winning iowa and use that as a spring board forward the way mike huckabee and rick sand or um did in 2012. >> were the students enthusiastic about his appearance? >> i want there today but what i've read is there was enthusiasm from students. and we should note that students at liberty were required to attend the speech so the crowd may have been smaller if the requirement was not there. >> and you had obama talking about mandatory voting.

and that is mandatory presidential campaign launch attendance. yeah. that is what we call a segway perry. i'm going to put up on the screen a word cloud of the top words he used. there were universal appeals as you would expect to america. magic, which is rhetoric that could be associated with liberals. but instead is there. which goes to the choices he was talking about, instead. and also government millions and people and then liberty and constitution as we just played in the clip as well. speak about what he needs to expand. because for political junkies following, they know how extreme his agenda is. and yet to my ear, part of the speech was trying to in its word, if not in context, sound more broadly appealing. >> he tried to frame his story. which a lot of us have not -- he talked about the government shutdown and reading green eggs

and ham on the senate floor but he's talking about his parents' story. his immigrant story and the cuban-american story and he talked about his wife and mother and ted cruz -- imagine a country in which they could rise from nothing and get to the places they are. that is why the word imagine was used. and he's trying to sort of broaden his story. presidents tend to run this way. obama kind of had a story about how he connected his rise with america's rise. that is what he will do. he won't move left on policy issues but he wants to frame his own biography so people don't think of him as mr. conservative or shutdown but a fully-pledged conservative. >> and we heard repeal and doing away with programs but what will he replace those with and what are his ideas. i've been saying for a while,

that ted cruz is someone that fascinates me. first he's smart and also an incredibly talented politician. anyone watching him today, he did not use the teleprompter or using notes. he knew exactly the mess toth to speak -- the message to speak to this audience and these people will voet in the primary and what is the impact like those who want to stay sane enough to the primary to appeal to win a general election. wouldn't this put them in a tough situation? he's probably going to force them to go places they don't want to go? >> that is one thing about ted cruz. he is a great candidate, who will finish in second? he has a great chance of finishing in second. like in iowa and south carolina. he will try. and you heard today a lot of talk about, one, repealing things. and then two changing the tax policy which is conservative. and now you have a question of where -- i think jeb bush is

clear he won't move -- he's going to try to win the moderate vote. he won't try to win the ted cruz vote. for scott walker and the marco rubio, they are trying to win the moderates and the tea party crowd, that is the real challenge. because when cruz is focusing on repealing obama care and focusing on no legalization and no amnesty or path to citizenship, so if i'm scott walker i'm trying to figure out how can i make sure -- because scott walker wants to be electable and conservative and that is the real challenge. and if you are mike huckabee or rick santorum and you won iowa ted cruz is a challenge because he is not only conservative but his record is impeccable in terms of credentials. harvard law school princeton, a supreme court clerk. we haven't had before a conservative christian candidate

with these academic credentials and who is smart enough for the job. >> you talk about princeton and abby talks about his facility without a prompter. this guy is going to be fun to watch in the debates. he is a monster-debater. but the question i want to put to you, perry. in america we think it is the people who choose the nominees but as you write and nate cohen writes it is the elites and he has a fantastic article, political scientists argue that the single most important determinant is the outcome of the nomination is support from the party nommin yeses. and he said the human equivalent of one of those flower squirters that clowns wear on their

lapels. can't the party supporters vote for themselves. >> that almost never happens. two reasons for that. and one is you have to raise a lot of money to run for president. >> you do? >> and they tend to be donors and giving jeb bush $100,000. so cruz will have a hard time raising money. imagine if he won a punch of primaries. jeb bush would still have much more money and ten two, if ted cruz won four or five primaries, i could see john hunts mab, mitt romney john mccain, where they endorse the other people. they do not like ted cruz or trust ted cruz. remember the whacko bird phrase john mccain used. the republican party does not trust ted cruz. they think he might be unelectable and do whatever possible to make sure he is not the nominee. >> perry bacon. thank you, as always. >> thanks, guys. and breaking news.

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breaking news in the investigation of the alleged sexual assault on the campus of the university of virginia that was reported in rolling stone magazine last fall. it was a piece that quickly threw the university and the magazine in a complicated controversy when the details were called in question. rolling stone admitted discrepancies in the reporting. the charlottesville p.d. released the results of their investigation this hour. >> we were unable to find any basis of fact to conclude there was an even an event on september 28th 2012 at that fraternity house. >> gabe guiterrez is outside

there. what did they say. >> reporter: the chief longo was very careful in what he said about the allegations. he said, as you played right there, he could not confirm that the gang rape described in the rolling stone article took place. but he also was quick to point out that he couldn't say that something terrible didn't happen to this person known as jackie. but they just hadn't found no evidence of it at this point. now police do say that jackie has not cooperated with investigators. they spoke with her in december and she made it clear to them that they were not to contact her again. and now police -- they also said that the case is suspended. that it is not closed. and again, chief longo said that the fact that the investigators couldn't find evidence of the rape doesn't mean that it didn't happen. now rolling stone has apologized for this. they are undergoing their own investigation by the columbia

school of journalist and we expect that in a couple of weeks. but this case really rocked the campus and brought the issue of campus sexual assault to the forefront. so today's news con had been awaited -- conference has been awaited for whitequite a while. >> and what came out, is no one has expelled from uva for sexual assault and 183 individuals have been excelled for honor video violations since 1998 and so has uva changed any poll sises since that -- policies since that now retracted article has come out zplnchs not specifically. they are reviewing the policies and they have increased security here on campus and the issue of campus assault is on the minds of people at the university of virginia since this article came out and even nationally. this is something that many

universities have been criticized for, that they don't have enough resources for victims of sexual assault on campus. the obama administration has investigated dozens of schools for their handles of title nine complaints. so this is something the university of virginia said they take seriously and are reviewing their policies when it comes to sexual assault. >> gabe guiterrez, thank you very much. and developing right now. millionaire real estate heir robert durst has just been denied bail. so what happens next? sarah daloff is outside of the court there. >> reporter: good afternoon, krystal. what happens next is a preliminary hearing held here in new orleans on april 2nd. during that the defense attorneys are going to argue his arrest was illegal and planned to coincide with the finale of the hbo "the jinx."

and today the prosecutors pushed for no bail saying he is a flight risk. they laid out a pattern of behavior, detailing his history and comments about jumping bail during the jinx and items found in his hotel. a map showing new orleans, florida and cuba and latex mask that would cover someone's head and neck with salt and pepper hair and a tracking number that led investigators to seize a package containing $117,000 in cash. now during all of this durst showed little reaction or emotion. though, he did appear to pay attention to the proceedings. he appeared quite frail in his orange jump suit. his head was shaved. you could see a long scar or possibly a drainage tubing alongside his skull. his attorneys said he recently had some type of brain surgery. he's being held about 70 miles

from the courthouse here in a prison designed to treat mental health and medical problems of prisoners. back to you guys. >> such a strange story. sarah dahl off, thank you for that update. and day 11 of testimony in the marathon bombing trial. first the defense cross-examined an fbi cyber expert about what the feds found on dzokhar tsarnaev's computer. ron mott remains in boston covering the trial for us. ron? >> reporter: hey there, abby. we believe, from the guidance from the prosecution and the government, they are in the home stretch in their prosecution and in their presentation of this case. they started the day with the fbi cyber expert who actually began his testimony last week going over copious amounts of electronic digital evidence that they are saying that shows that dzokhar tsarnaev was a jihadist or thought of him as a jihadist going back three or four years.

perhaps two years -- as long as two years before the bombing itself. the defense has maintained that his brother tamerlan was the mastermind behind the plot and roped his younger brother into the plot to injure and kill people at the boston marathon. and we learned about a text exchange between dzokhar and a college friend of his. this is a few days after the bombing. the friend sent him a text message asking him if he was watching the news after the fbi press conference and he wrote back saying you probably shouldn't text me but you can go to my room and get that stuff and that was a backpack full of his laptop, some is fireworks and other electronics devices that he threw into a dumpster that they went through a landfill to get that evidence. and they are talking about how the jihadist movement has evolved it used to be these central large groups like al qaeda would essentially tell

people come to where we are and join the fight and now it is more you can fight at home where you are. they talk about this inspire magazine that she say dzokhar tsarnaev had downloaded to his computers and it talked about how to build a mom in your mom's kitchen with other texts that the government considers extremist. so we're expecting the government to wrap its case perhaps wednesday and thursday and then the defense will take over from there, abby. >> ron mott in boston. thank you for that update. now to a man my family and i got to know over the years. lee kuan yew died at the age of 91. perhaps one of the most under-recognized yet successful nation builders at the time. transforming a city to one of the wealthiest surnts in asia and even soft authoritarianism. his legacy of economic growth and prosperity will live on. he is survived by his daughter and two sons one of them now the current prime minister.

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exemptions. >> that documentary airs tomorrow night on pbs at 10:00 p.m. or 9:00 central. and joining us is the producer and director kate mcmahon. thank you for being here. first question why do you want to put this out now and why does it relate to everything we've been hearing about? >> i first want to tip my hat to the leadership at frontline. rainy aaron son and raff and david moynahan who brought this to us five years ago when we first did our reporting but called on us recently in light of the measles outbreak that we've seen spread through late december that began in disneyland. and now has spread across the nation and we're seeing almost 200 cases so far this year. the majority of those cases being linked to that multi-state outbreak in disneyland. >> kate it is a powerful

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vulnerable. >> that is right. and five years ago, public health officials and the medical community were warning that a low uptake in vaccines would potentially lead to outbreaks. and now five years forward to this year we are indeed seeing that. vanessa's story was one of the examples that we reported on in the original broadcast. the other examples we found of vaccine preventible diseases came from dr. cristophe who treated vanessa who had been documenting for many years pediatric cases of preventible diseases that hadn't been seen and using that video to educate emergency responders how to recognize these diseases that were all but disappeared and it was with vaccine -- the store is that they are kind of a victim of their own success.

and now that we're seeing diseases coming back people who -- the majority of people who do vaccinate are feeling they are standing on fermer ground and being more vocal about the importance of vaccines. >> the real reason we're having this debate is there are folks that don't want to vaccinate their kids and despite what doctors tell them and the studies that come out, they make the decision they don't want to vaccinate their children. you spoke to their parents. one of them talked about why they don't want to vaccinate their children and let's talk about it. >> a lot of diseases are transmitted even before you know they are sick. >> it is my responsibility as a parent to keep my child safe and i don't think it is my responsibility to be at a party with you and you cough on her. and i don't mean to be sounding selfish in that way.

>> there has to be some step beyond that i take responsibility for me and my kids because there are things that happen in the best of in tensions that diseases do get transmitted. >> kate, for these parents who genuinely believe they should have the final say and it is safest for them not to vaccinate their kids how difficulty is it for doctors to explain to them how they should vaccinate their kids. >> it is difficult for doctors to explain that. and i do valid ate parents' concerns. this is an emotional issue on both sides. and we did expensive reporting to drill down to basically what -- what patients really feel about this. as far as doctors go the cdc, the scientific community and medical establishment, they've been pretty baffled by the -- the doubt that has been spread and a lot of misinformation that's been spread largely by

social media and the internet. this goes against what public health officials tout as one of the -- one of modern medicines biggest miracles that vaccines have extended human life by 30 years and that there are study after study that show no link to -- between vaccines and autism, the biggest fear that parents have. and that study after study shows the risk and benefit of vaccines and the efficacy of vaccines to protect public health. >> and what you just said is interesting. is it the internet and media that has allowed this to persist? >> i would say in the words of barbara lowe fisher who heads up the vaccine information center and we interviewed her, the internet is a force, it empowers

people to access information and to spread information. it can't be just that the internet itself is to blame for public health's challenge with all of this. public health also needs to do their job at communicating and listening and then helping their message come across clearly. >> i hear that. and that is fine up to a point. and there is misinformation on the internet cutting against public health. i think your piece is fair-minded in looking at that and that is one of the problems a lot of us are concerned about. kate mcmahon, thank you for your time. and the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. there is a basketball game going on. >> and utah won. >> it is something we'll talk about next with jordan.

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us. the villanova wildcats were de-clawed. the virginia cavaliers got sent packing early by michigan state in third round action. toure and i are still in with the kentucky wildcats coasting through. >> you're in the hunt. >> and my head is with kentucky and my heart is with duke. and our huffington sports columnist and most importantly, friend of the cycle and good to have you here it was a crazy weekend, you were all over it one of the biggest surprises, but i was excited about utah winning against duke. what stood out to you and the big games that surprised. >> i'm going to start with my correct fix. nc state, i had them beating the one seed and wichita state, who

i love they beat kansas in the all kansas match-up. kansas won't play in the regular season. somehow they got scheduled in the tournament. it happened. that was awesome. and tournament. i think that's awesome. virginia as a two seed goes down to michigan state. the coach continues to impress. >> don't strain your elbow too much pattingjordan. you are doing well. >> there was a moment in the kentucky where they were down three points with about 60 minutes left and the announcers were going nuts and then they went on a 15-0 run and the game was over. it seems like it is us putting pressure on them. >> they played two games now where they let leads a little bit slip away. the hampton game we'll forget

about that. cincinnati matched them. now is when the games really start to happen. they're going to play west virginia next weekend. >> what else should we be looking forward to this weekend? >> i love arizona. i think they're playing great basketball. they haven't been in the final four since 2001 when they lost to duke. i think that's what we're going to see again with duke over arizona, but kentucky is going to lose. >> that's assuming that duke is going to beat utah. >> gonezaga is a team to watch. >> what do you have ari? >> what is it look for teams that are really low ranked and have almost no shot? >> there's two ways to look at

it. one is the big schools who have underachieved. there's no pressure on them but at the same time you expect ucla to do great things. lower seeds like georgia state who gets a big upset over baylor, i think there's no pressure on them and you come out and attack. the smaller schools are the ones that you win and you have to make three-pointers. >> i was sad to see that father and son tandem lose. you want to see good things happen to good people like that. >> georgia state has a father-son combination. after they lost did you hear what his dad said to him? his dad said you know what? you're my son. i'm going to buy you a new car. you come back for your senior year. the nba can wait for another year. if this was not a father and son, we would be talking about some serious allegations here.

>> if you filled out a bracket, you are kind of screwed. >> most people. >> we can all suffer together, right? i like kentucky. >> that's going to come back to hurt you. >> we're going to win, abby. >> we'll see you soon to talk more march madness. next toure reflects elvis. why do i take metamucil everyday? because it helps me skip the bad stuff. i'm good. that's what i like to call, the meta effect. 4-in-1 multi-health metamucil is clinically proven to help you feel less hungry between meals. experience the meta effect with our multi-health wellness line. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years.

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so let's have a little conversation about conversations about race. not conversation about race, per se but something more meta.

starbucks recently joined the chorus and the intentions behind that impulse are definitely good, but i don't believe the problem in america is too little talk about race. in this nation we talk about race all the time and as jay smooth said on this network, quite often talking is not the answer. >> if you look at the doj report on ferguson it does not describe issues that can be addressed by increasing the chats in coffee shop. we're talking about institutional issues. >> but for people who don't think there is a problem, i think at least talking about it is a step. >> the emphasis on talking about misleads us about where the problems are because the focus on conversation comes out of our our -- >> they're often trying to make themselves feel better about a problem they don't know how to

solve. conversations about race tend to drift toward the challenge of recognizing our shared humanity and trying to close the racial empathy gap. these conversations about race tend to suggest that racial problems are everyone's fault and if we were more cognizant and empathetic problems would go away. implicit biases exist within everyone, but the overwhelming majority of us are good hearted and are accepting of other races. conversations about race that make everyone feel guilty and complicit are counterproductive. quote, effective conversations on race are grounded in the understanding that racial

discrimination isn't just or even mostly about what happens among individuals. it is about what happens as a result of systems. efforts at cross racial understanding of are value, but more valuable is conversations about how to combat the institutional racism. we don't need national conversations on race that makes demands on white people whose hearts are already in the right place. and we need conversations about how we can get away from fixating on individual racism to focus more on the constitutions that perpetuate the two separate americas we have today. that does it for "the cycle." have a great day. benjamin netanyahu

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