germany and spain arrived at the site. we expect to hear from them as well. meanwhile, claudia will he vonn i can't joins us near the crash site. at this point, the search continues for the second black box. what are investigators saying now. we have seen the helicopters near where the crash site is. six helicopters carrying tens of rescue workers 20 of them have been lifted on the crash site that's the only way to reach it. it crashed into a steep ravine the only way to get there quickly is being dropped from a helicopter. the other way to walk downhill from a mountain top, two hours on a steep descent, which is obviously out of the question especially here in what looks like winter. behind me there are two

helicopters that carried francois hollande and angela merkel. they were supposed to attend a special service in the closest town to the crash site. we expect in the afternoon families starting to gather here there are support groups waiting for them as well. we are waiting for the press conference to take place. we may hear from investigators whether they got any evidence or information from that black box that was received yesterday. this is one of two black boxes. the one retrieved is the voice conversation between the pilots. the fact they did not communicate to the tower any problems or did not send out a distress signal or may day makes this black box important. this was damaged in the impact which was massively violent. the plane literally pulverized on impact flying at about 500 miles per hour. they say despite damage it is

the microchip inside is important, and that should be intact. so that information, we may hear about it in the next hour or so. >> claudio lavanga, thank you so much. tom costello and john cox join me. tom, i start with you here. the data on that voice recorder how long typically does it take to get that critical information downloaded. >> if the recording is in good condition, they should be able to get that within an hour or two. that's not difficult. the concern is when you look at the pictures and see the condition of that box, i want to point out that box is different than this box. it does the same thing. there are different varieties of flight data and voice recorders. but the box has been as you can see pounded and significantly damaged. i think the question that the french are wrestling with is how much can they pull off the

cockpit voice recorder. they have extremely sophisticated equipment to be able to do that but that could be a big challenge. i think we want to hear from the french exactly what they're able to get. to answer more directly two hours is the amount of length of time or length of time that that recording should contain. two hours' worth of conversation. that would be the entire length of that flight. >> tom, back to the condition you mention of that black box, i would imagine when data is recovered from a crash site when you have an aircraft as in this case pulverized even if there was a fire for example, that the boxes have to be resilient as it is carrying critical information after an accident. >> they're impact resistant and fire resistant to 2,000 degrees. they're very robust and sturdy. but this type of crash is just so unusual. you can see it is described as being pulverized nothing but confetti on the ground.

as relates to the second black box they're looking for, the flight data recorder which looks similar to the first one, this is 1300 pieces of data on that fdr, altitude and speed, vertical acceleration heading, pitch, roll all of the parameters, flight parameters engine performance that tell us what was going on in the plane as well as whether there was any sort of decompression event. >> captain cox, let me bring you in. looking at the debris field, hearing the description of pieces being in some cases smaller than a small car there, again, we are waiting to hear more information. but the fact the pieces are pulverized as described, does that tell you anything? >> any time you have that number of pieces that are very small like that it says the airplane hit at quite high speed, it is a high energy impact. when you look at other

accidents, for example the one in san francisco, you had large pieces because the airplane was going slowly. in this case the germanwings accident, it says the airplane hit the mountain at a very high speed, and this is confirmed by the amount of damage done to the cockpit voice recorder. there was a lot of force applied to that recorder and you can see it in the twisting of the box itself. that also says it hit at a very very high speed. >> let me get tom back in to clarify. where do we stand as far as information about digital distress call transmitted. what do we know regarding that. did that happen tom is this. >> no, it now appears now, in the early moments of the crash, there was a lot of confusing information, and one piece of information was whether the plane transmitted a distress code via transponder. the pilots above to input that into the keyboard. it now appears that did not happen there was zero communication between the pilots and the ground. even after air traffic control

tried to raise them on the radio, they didn't respond. it is confusing. why would the pilots not respond. why if they're going to program in descent, it appears to be auto program descent, using auto pilot. why didn't they communicate with the ground, say we are descending, we have a problem, we need you to be aware, we may need another airport. there was zero communication which leads to speculation, which is widespread. were the pilots in some way incapacitated. was there an event on board that rendered them unable to communicate or even to perform functions. >> captain, that's the question to tom's point late yesterday evening that seemed to be the primary question coming from experts like yourself. >> well it's certainly something investigators are going to look at. there are several questions here. one, the airplane attained cruise altitude and didn't stay there very long so what caused

them to need to come down. that's the first question. secondly as they started descent, which was controlled because it was not an emergency descent, in emergency descent, it would have descended much more rapidly. it was controlled. the airplane stayed on track. that indicates that the airplane was still being flown by auto pilot, under the flight management computer. that indicates it was a controlled descent. normally in a descent like that pilots will set an altitude for it to level off. typically 10,000 feet. was that not set or did the airplane not level off, we don't have that information, but that's the second level of questions that the investigators are going to have to have answered. why didn't the airplane level off. why did it continue that descent. so there's several questions in here that need to be answered and progressively the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder will provide those

answers. >> tamron one more point, just more evidence that maybe this crew was incapacitated, when you are about to impact the terrain, there are audible warnings. pull up pull up. and one would think, and there's one warning at a minute before impact, one at 30 seconds before impact. they would have had time in theory to pull the plane up avoid that mountain if they were able to perform their functions. >> additionally that's something that pilots are trained to respond to almost instantly. it is something that we are trained pretty heavily for. so that's a question about pilot incapacitation as well. >> all those questions. again, we are awaiting update from french officials as well as the news conference that should start soon. german chancellor angela merkel and france's president, francois hollande. we will follow the information. a memorial is growing outside the german high school where some of the students went to

school. flowers and candles were there in honor of the students and teachers on the plane, coming home from an exchange program in spain. katy tur has the story from germany. >> reporter: perhaps nowhere was harder hit than this school here just 45 minutes to the north of dusseldorf germany where 18 people lost their lives, 16 students and 2 teachers just in barcelona for a week long exchange program to learn spanish, learn a little about the culture. they were on their way home now their friends and fellow students classmates parents, teachers inside are trying to come to grips with the huge loss. it was supposed to be the highlight of their year. instead, their friends and classmates are lighting candles, burning with their memory. this morning classes were cancelled but kids were encouraged to come to school anyway, to mourn with counselors teachers, and

friends. in the small town this official says the loss touched everyone telling reporters no power in the world can take away that pain. last night a woman showed me a photo of her 16-year-old cousin. >> i can't believe that she will never come and i can't really say good-bye to her. >> how is the school feeling now? >> empty. >> empty, save for one giant question on everyone's mind and written in german on a sign outside the school. warum. why. tamron, these students were 15 and 16 years old, mostly girls. there's going to be a moment of silence across all the schools in germany tomorrow starting at 10:30, a minute of silence to remember their lives. tamron? >> katy thank you very much. another big story we are

following on capitol hill the president of afghanistan is addressing a joint meeting of congress. it is the first time a president from afghanistan spoke before congress in ten years. president ghani's speech one day after president obama announced he would slow down withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan. we will get an update and hear from president ghani next. also ahead, gop presidential candidate ted cruz who launched his campaign vowing to repeal the affordable care act is now enrolling in obamacare. how he is explaining that. and a new ruling in the amanda knox case. could she be forced to return to that country? it is one of the stories we are following around the "newsnation." join the conversation online. find the team @newsnation, find me on facebook, twitter and instagram. it tastes better when you grow it. it tastes even better when you share it. it's not hard, it's doable.

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ghani minutes ago began addressing a joint meeting of congress just moments ago, he is only the second afghan president to address congress. hamid karzai did so in 2004. president ghani's remarks come a day after his talks with president obama who announced u.s. would not cut troop levels in afghanistan in half in 2015 despite previous pledge to do so. >> president ghani requested some flexibility on draw down timelines. i consulted with general campbell in afghanistan, my national security team and decided to maintain the current posture of 9800 troops through the end of this year. we want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to help afghan security forces succeed so we don't have to go back.

>> nbc's foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin joins us now. good to see you. the president says it is a necessary response in anticipation of springtime resurgence of taliban there. >> yes, this is on a few different levels. one to make sure in springtime when there's resurgence of taliban activity and attacks, there's a strong secure afghan presence on the ground backed by the u.s. and international force, but more importantly i think this is a political message to the new leadership of afghanistan. afghanistan transitioned to a national unity government, very bad relations with the outgoing government of hamid karzai so when you saw president ghani, this is a message he has been delivering the past couple months, trying to strike a conciliatory tone, and president obama ak nonld that saying we will keep troops there, slow down withdrawal to give you the best chance for success as possible. >> how much does it have to do with yemen and that they took their eye off the ball and

underestimated issues there, and seeing through the region with isis, a time when the administration was criticized for not seeing how brutal or how influential isis could be in that region. >> that's a great question. it is more applicable to iraq than yemen, the motion the afghan president put in play happened since day one in office for him. you're right. the criticism was the united states withdrew from iraq quickly, security forces weren't up to the task, isis took control of mosul and other parts of iraq and syria. there's that concern among the security establishment, if the u.s. withdraws too quickly from afghanistan, not giving afghan forces chance for success, you could see taliban reengage and more importantly isis which now started to make in roads, according to the afghan president, making some in roads into his country. that would be a disastrous situation. >> one of the reasons i brought up yemen, the situation is different than in iraq or syria, it is seen as spiraling out of

control and the u.s. said this was a model of what can be an effective strategy. here now that strategy is falling apart which indicates that you know perhaps the administration from afghanistan on reassessing how quickly, how decisively they respond to this. >> the lesson out of yemen, you can't have a failed state. where we were a year ago, touting this as example of model of counterterrorism operations now we don't even have a central government in control of yemen. the saudis are amassing thousands on the border in a possible indication the violence could widen beyond yemen. but that's the lesson learned for afghanistan. that the united states cannot afford to have afghanistan become a failed state. we saw what it did previously prior to 9/11 when afghanistan was a failed state, what it would do now would be disastrous for pakistan afghanistan, and u.s. and allies in the region. >> ayman mohyeldin live thank

you so much. up next congressman jason chaffetz unleashes anger on secret service director joe clancy over bungled response to the bomb threat at the white house. >> who are you holding accountable? >> we are going to wait. >> you're going to wait. that's the problem. that's the problem. >> this as we are seeing security video for the first time showing what happened the night two secret service agents who allegedly were drinking crashed into the barricade. what former senator barney frank is saying about vice president joe biden that has people raising an eyebrow or two. it is one of the things we are following and thought you should know. and here is what's happening today, wednesday, march 25th. university of oklahoma student levi petit expected to speak out about his involvement in that racist chant video that went viral. one of the students identified in the video, now meeting with african-american leaders in oklahoma and he will speak

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we are going to wait. this is the united states of america. the threat is real. but i don't feel it. i don't see it and it is unacceptable. >> that was house oversight and government committee chair jason chaffetz admonishing joseph clancy who testified a third day on agent misconduct. first time we saw police video of the march 4th incident involving two secret service agents who had been drinking bumping their car into a barricade at a white house checkpoint where a bomb investigation of all things was under way. they narrowly missed the package containing the suspected bomb. clancy who says he didn't learn about the incident until five days later faced criticism from members of both parties. >> to bring this kind of disruption when they're supposed to be guarding the president of the united states of america, we are better than that. >> we trust you to protect the life of the president of the

united states and you can't investigate a suspected drunk driving? >> especially with the history we've got here of folks shooting at the white house jumping over the fence, it is like the keystone cops here. >> among those with tough questions for director clancy, eleanor holmes norton. thank you for your time. >> sure. >> start with criticism you have for the new director. you said for the beginning of his tenure you expected to be more order and he would be part of the chain of command where he would learn of something like the incident we now have seen on video. >> yeah i faulted him for not issuing an order immediately that any incident should be immediately reported up the chain of command, in light of the fact there were bullets in the white house that even the secret service didn't report and was found by an attendant at the white house days or months later. and of course i fault him because you always fault management. but take a look at this.

almost the entire management, top management not only the director but almost the entire top management is gone. there's been a panel. we have looked at the top management. we can keep flailing them and of course we will and should but when are we going to look at the men and women who have indeed, and here is where we get to some of the panel's report been working 12 hour days often 14 days in a row, with no days off, with missions added since 9/11, with none of the training they got before they used to get training every four weeks. when are we going to look at the entire agency. when are we going to take some responsibility ourselves, for example, the budget of the agency has been flat it only lifts what is it two weeks ago

after the department of homeland security was held up received its budget so i don't take a thing off management because management is always responsible, but our committee has got to start looking at what the agents and uniformed services have been subjected to. when you see drunken incidents in colombia, the netherlands, now the white house, you conclude either we have been hiring bad agents or you conclude the agents have been under unusual pressure while we hold them to zero failure. not fair. we need to look at the whole secret service, not just the top. >> i think people will appreciate what you're saying. however, there are plenty of people who work 12 hour days in very stressful jobs that don't get drunk on the job allegedly and careen into a barricade, they're held to high standards. >> don't misunderstand me i'm not taking the case of these agents nor am i looking at the agents in particular.

i am looking at the panel report and the panel report talks about the pressure that the agents have been under, and you notice i didn't just talk about this totally unacceptable crash into the barricade but what amounts to serial misconduct by agents those who are an elite agency. it is time we looked at them too, and say is it their pressure, is something wrong with the people we have been hiring, is it something wrong with training? they used to have training every four weeks, whatever happened to that? why was there no new classes in the last three years, so there have been no new agents even though they had new missions. i am not saying we take a thing off management, take a thing off drunken agents. i am saying we need to look at the entire agency and make sure we are not asking overburdened agents to reach zero failure when we are not giving them what it takes to reach zero failure.

>> it is interesting at the hearing last week, the house appropriations committee, director clancy pitched a plan to build an $8 million replica of the white house for training at its training facility. that raised eyebrows considering other things that seem to be needed to fix some of the problems that you even referred to as serial misconduct. so would you support the $8 million replica of the white house needed according to the director for training. >> i would like to know a lot more about that replica. without the replica, if they just go back to training every four weeks i'd be happy. if they just get new agents because they have new classes, i would be happy. so whatever they're going to do with a new replica, that's not going to happen for a long time. what i need to happen now is agents to get what they need to reach zero failure. >> thank you so much for joining

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now to the "newsnation" daily roundup of the top political stories you'll be talking about. senator ted cruz and his family are signing up for obamacare. he made the surprising admission after vowing to scrap the law in a speech announcing his run for president. speaking of the current president, president obama described his relationship with israeli prime minister netanyahu as quote, business like. the remarks amid bombshell report that israel spied on u.s. nuclear talks with iran. this from dallas morning news, jeb bush joined at a major fund-raiser by his brother, former president george w. bush. it is their first fund-raiser of the year. bring in senior political editor mark murray. let me play what senator cruz said on cnn when he admitted he would be signing up. let's play that. >> we will be on the federal exchange like millions of others on the federal exchange. >> so you will be getting obamacare effectively. >> it is one of the good things

about obamacare is that the statute provided that members of congress would be on the exchanges without subsidies, just like millions of americans. >> it is one of the good things but he says he will repeal the entire thing. first of all, why does he need to sign up now? >> tamron i think overall this story is much ado about nothing. he needs to get health insurance through obamacare or through the d.c. exchange or federal exchange because he was currently getting health care from his wife's plan on goldman sachs, and she's taking a leave from goldman, sachs as cruz makes his presidential run. this puts ted cruz in the category of all members of congress, including republicans like house speaker john boehner, where they're getting health insurance via obamacare. you can still end up being a critic of the health care law, but end up still having it. i think the bigger story is that so many members of congress are getting this and you don't hear

complaints about this as you do just complaints about people's normal health care coverage getting it from your employer. >> other members of congress that perhaps rolled along, signed up not all of them are running for president, not all of them said this week instead of millions that lost health insurance and doctors faced zie rocketing health insurance premiums, imagine a new president signing into legislation repealing every word of obamacare. that's why i don't think people see it as much ado about nothing, someone that's running for president, erase every word except this part today that is great for me and my family. >> there's an irony here you raise a bigger point about what do republicans do once it is eliminated. do you have anything in place not only to give health insurance to millions of americans currently insured but members of congress who have to get their stuff on the federal exchange or d.c. exchange. >> let's move to the second topic, the president describing

his relationship with prime minister netanyahu as a working relationship, a business relationship. >> yeah and president obama was clear to say that his disagreement is on policy not the personality, using the word business like. it wasn't such a warm add jektive, he was saying the disagreements aren't political disagreements with benjamin netanyahu, they have to do with netanyahu's reversal then later backtrack on whether this should be a two state solution for israel and of course the big issue on the iran nuclear talks, that these countries and their governments are fundamentally at disagreement here and that is an issue. >> what about aftershocks from "the wall street journal" report of israel spying on the united states or negotiations i should say between the u.s. and iran and of course we know they learned of it because the u.s. was spying as well. >> it was a great story by the "the wall street journal" yesterday.

although there hasn't been any kind of second day analysis or movement on that. my colleague andrea mitchell ended up reporting on nightly news that israel continues to deny this and president obama didn't take the bait in the news conference yesterday, saying all members of congress as well as israel will end up seeing everything that's in that deal with iran if there is a deal. >> and last but not least, jeb bush joined by his brother for their first fund-raiser. >> yeah, it is behind closed doors. jeb bush and george w. bush his brother, father bush 41 will be sub text to jeb bush's presidential campaign. to me the big question do you see george w. bush play a public role in any kind of jeb presidential bid, if jeb bush gets the nomination, does w end up attending, have a role at the republican convention. it is worth noting george w. bush wasn't present at the 2008 convention or 2012 republican convention. >> mark, great pleasure.

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afghan president ghani is addressing congress following talks with president obama who announced the u.s. wouldn't cut troop levels in half by the end of 2015. >> the people of afghanistan recognize the bravery of your soldiers and tremendous sacrifices americans have made to keep afghanistan free. [ applause ] >> he is only the second president of afghanistan to address congress. a new campaign launched by clean and clear is called ground breaking, not just for promoting natural beauty but for who they've chosen for the face of the see the real me movement. 14 years old, jazz jennings emerged as one of the leading advocates in transgender community. she was assigned male at birth, showed signs of what's known as gender dysphoria. at the age of two, began to transition to life as a female when she was six.

since then whether through her popular youtube channel or book she recently published, her powerful message about being different is resonating. "time" magazine named her one of the most influential teenagers of 2014 and now clean and clear hopes her story will inspire people all around the world. >> for the first time i invited girls over to the house. we started hanging out more. it was just a great time for me and it still is. the real me is happy and proud to be who i am. >> proud to be who she is proud to have her in studio. jazz jennings. good to see you. >> you too. >> i have to tell people on the commercial break, her mom was over, she's the baby of the family, watching her dote over you, that family connection, your siblings older siblings supporting you as well how has that made such a difference? >> having such the support of family helped to shape the person i am today. i wouldn't be as confident as a transgender individual if i

didn't have the love and support my family has given me. sometimes i say that without them i don't even know if i would be here today. >> do you remember your first conversation with your parents about this? >> well ever since i could speak i was saying that i was a girl. i didn't necessarily know the word transgender, but i knew i was different. and after a little while they took me to the doctor i was diagnosed with gender identity disorder, called gender dysphoria, and that's when things progressed. >> as you mention you didn't know the words to use, you were a kid, six years old, but you said to your parents that you were a girl. do you remember or recall their response to you? >> well i know that at first they thought it was a phase, and they continued to make me wear boy clothes in public. it made me upset. then i would refuse to go outside unless if i could dress as a girl. that was like a really defining moment where i showed them that i was a girl.

that really helped me moving forward in my transition being such a strong person saying i wouldn't go out if i couldn't look like a girl. >> absolutely. that speaks to your parents and their support. as you know many other children would not have that same experience. they are often met with bullying and hostility and violence within their own homes if they have revealed that same thing, so what is your message today to kids who don't have the family that you have that don't have the support system that you have. >> you just have to stay strong keep moving forward. if you keep a positive attitude things will get better. you have my support and you just have to find friends who will love and accept you no matter what. i tell them to love their sefs stay true to who they are. >> what i love about you, you're incredibly honest. i will ask you an honest question. what's the most difficult part of this. every day i'm sure was not a day of perfection a day of ease.

>> well obviously i embrace my uniqueness being transgender and i wouldn't change who i am at all, but you know it is really hard when i face a lot of discrimination, but i just have to stay strong and push those feelings aside, because i can't listen to what others think about me. >> when you say you face discrimination, do you experience that in school? in what way? >> i receive a lot of negativity on my youtube videos. people say they want me to die, say terrible things. the intolerance just motivates me to keep educating, letting them know that i am transgender and it is okay to be myself. it is just really a hatred turns to motivation for me. >> hatred is often smacked down by love. in addition to awful remarks on your youtube majpage, there are people celebrating you and you have the "clean and clear" ad

campaign and movement behind you. taylor swift's song haters going to hate. there you have it. you have shaken it off, turned it into a successful platform. we're so proud of you. i have to say since you're in a clean and clear campaign you're awfully beautiful. just going to leave it at that. you can hear more from jazz today, 3:00 p.m. eastern time with thomas roberts. coming up another great guest in studio. we are hitting it out of the park. bob marley's son is branching the family name beyond music in a way i think people might be surprised by. up next, we talk live with him about the award winning coffee business with the marley name attached, how his father's legacy inspired this new company.

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welcome back. son of music legend bob marley is making quite a name for himself these days by going back to his roots, only it's not in the world of music. 15 years ago, rohan played football at the university of miami and in the canadian football league, took $200,000 in royalties from his father's music and bought 50 acres of land in jamaica and used that land to grow coffee. but it took more than the marley name to get this far. it took years of setbacks and a steep learning curve to make the company work. in studio with us is rohan marley. thanks for joining us. i've been giving you grief because you brought in coffee beans but no brewed coffee. >> you have this great water sitting here. >> i have great new york water to put with my great jamaican coffee. thank you, thank you. i'll have some later.

how risky is that to take that money, the royalties money, and try to turn it into this company that i think many people wouldn't associate with the marley name? >> at the time i wasn't really thinking about the risk until i spent the money. after the money left me i was thinking of doing something for the community. when the land, the opportunity came for the land i just made an impulse buy like oh this is too beautiful for a 26-year-old to have the opportunity to have this type of land in jamaica. at the time i had my long locks. i made the impulse buy. i wanted the land. after buying the land i didn't know what i was going to do with the land until i asked the community. i say to the community, what's the community known for? they told me coffee. that day i decided i want to get in the coffee business. that was 1999. >> what is the learning curve like when you're going in all of the sudden? you've never done anything like that, and it's coffee something people are very sensitive about. >> well, you know in life you

have to put yourself forward in whatever it is that you're doing. every man was once a child, you know. so anything that you have to do you have to take these baby steps. you have to plant the seed. you have to watch a tree grow. i kind of understood that from watching my family business my brothers and sisters, i kind of understood that it's going to take some time. so i was willing to invest my time and my energy in creating something with a sustainable movement that can support not only a community but also do things that's going to make the world a better place. >> you mentioned the sustainable model that will help the community. as you know there's a lot of controversy on how growers are treated. the economic imbalance where you have some major corporations who take home millions and the growers take home almost nothing. >> that's my own thing. one major thing we're doing this year, we're going to launch our eco cups. with the whole thing of single serve, it's how much waste is going into the wasteland.

marley coffee we're part of that movement of changing the mind set of people that you can do better. you can create better wages for the farmers. you can supply your community with better products. the people should know where their products are made and where they come from. and also doing things sustainable. so with the eco cup, we're trying to drive that message about the universe, about the environment. that business should be a reflection of a person. so do things that you want to give to your kids. >> and let me ask you about, of course, the pressure you must have been under. your last name is marley. people would have expected, you know, you to go right into music. how did you fight that pressure? >> well, i had no choice because growing up in jamaica, i lived in spanish town. i really -- when i would leave from spanish town take a couple buses to school in the morning, go back to my community, i had a soccer ball. i started to become an athlete. when i would visit my brothers and sisters, you know, my brothers were all in music. i would try to play a little music, but my passion at the time was to be an athlete. then i moved to america when i

was 12 years old. i learned the game of football. then i got a scholarship to university of miami. so i didn't have time to think about music. >> but you had time to think about this. and it is a great product, if i can ever get a taste of it. >> oh trust me. >> the business mod sell what we celebrate. it's bringing in the community and allowing for ecofriendly as well as sustainable model to help beyond the company's name. >> you have to do something with the platform that you have. i'm given such a great legacy with what my father and family has built upon to this point. what am i going to do as the son of bob? i can't just sit home and wait on royalties. we have to do something. it's more than just music. it's a life. the music is life. >> well thank you so much for joining us and congratulations. that does it for this edition of "news nation." up next "andrea mitchell reports."

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