there is no room for the members of the ku klux klan or for races like david duke. >> there was gentle advice, invoking the democratic senator robert byrd of west virginia who died in 2010. >> the right answer to this is this country does not discriminate. no president, no officer of this country should hold office, treating people differently because of the color of their skip or where they came from. that kind of thing. we believe in equality and fair treatment. that's the moral principle we adhere to. i hope he makes that clear. >> clear robert byrd, hillary

clinton are -- >> what are you saying about robert byrd? >> well, he endorsed barack obama. no one asked him to disavow that endorsement. >> you're comparing robert byrd to david duke, are you really? >> we're talking about a klansman -- >> that's a real smear. >> david duke denounced the kkk a long time ago too. >> now to the democrats where 878 pledged dell gots are at stake today. that's more than a third needed to clinch the nomination. it's going to be a steep climb for senator bernie sanders. because of hillary clinton's massive lead among superdelegates the total count headed into the contest is clinton 519, sanders 86. the clinton camp is spending around $6.4 million across all 11 states voting today. while sanders is on the airwaves in just five states. recent polling shows clinton leading by anywhere between 20

and 50 points in each of the southern contests today, but other polls suggests sanders can pick off some states in the northeast and midwest. a new monmouth poll out of oklahoma has him ahead by five points and a new poll shows the one in massachusetts a dead heat and that's where he held his final pre super tuesday rally last night. >> you know what, i look around this crowd tonight. i think we're going to win here. when we began, we 45dz -- we had no money, we had no political organization and people outside of new england didn't know who bernie sanders was and we were taking on perhaps one of the best known people in this country. somebody who had been anointed by the establishment as the democratic nominee.

well, a lot has changed in the last ten months. >> no matter the outcome today, sanders has the war chest to fight on. the $21 million he took in in january was the most raised of any presidential candidate in the entire field. and yesterday, his campaign announced that they doubled that total in the month of february raising more than $41 million. the clinton campaign meanwhile is already looking past today's super tuesday contest to a possible general election match-up with donald trump. a front page story in this morning's "new york times" details the clinton machine strategy to take down the republican front-runner should he become if nominee. it has three major thrusts portray him as a heartless business man who worked against the interest of the working class voters he appeals to, broadcast the degrading comments

he made against women and show he is unsuited to be commander in chief. and clinton's pivot towards the general was on display again yesterday. she hold four events in virginia and in massachusetts. and at all four, she used her new line of attack against trump's trademark slogan. >> america never stopped being great. we have to make america whole. i really regret the language that is being used by republicans. scapegoating people, finger pointing, blaming. that is not how we should behave toward one another, when you have somebody running for president who is insulting people. insulting their religion. i'll tell you that makes a hard job even harder. i have to tell you, i'm looking forward to those debates. because at some point, you can't

just say whatever pops into your head if you want to be the president of the united states of america. >> the state department has completed releasing the trove of e-mails it was given from hillary clinton's private server. the last batch of the more than 50,000 pages was release yesterday making the final deadline. in total, more than 2,000 of the documents have been retroactively upgraded to varying levels of confidentiality including 22 labeled at the highest level. but "the new york times" reports of the four e-mails that prompted the referral to the fbi, only one has now been classified as top secret. none of the e-mails in the archive had classification markings when they were originally sent or received. this morning a 14-year-old is facing charges after opening fire on his class mates inside an ohio school. the teenaged gunman from

madison, ohio, is in custody right now. two students were listed in stable condition after sustaining gunshot wounds. two other students were also injured in the chaos. >> there's a shooting! >> okay. >> got a gun. he started shooting people. >> how many were shot? >> i'm not sure. he pulled out a gun. he started shooting. >> officials say after opening fire in the cafeteria, the shooter ran from the school, dropping his weapon. police were able to trace his scent using dogs and he was taken into custody near school grounds. according to the nbc affiliate in cincinnati, authorities have an idea for the motive, but have not released details yet. all four injured students are expected to be okay. for just the sixth time a navy s.e.a.l. gets the military award. byers was sent to rescue a

doctor in 2012. they encountered the enemy gun fire almost immediately. president obama described the harrowing scene yesterday at the white house. >> they moved under the cover of darkness on that cold, december night. through the mountains, down rocky trails for hours. they found their target and moved in quickly and quietly. then when they were less than a hundred feet from the building a guard came out and the bullets started flying. it was over almost as soon as it began. and just minutes by going after those guards ed saved the lives of several teammates and that hostage. >> chief byers enlisted in 1998 and he has been deployed 11 times overseas. still ahead on "way too early," today, apple and the fbi go head to head on capitol hill but already apple has won a major victory in a similar legal battle. plus, in tearful testimony sports reporter erin andrews talks about the video she says has not just damaged her career, but changed her life.

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office depot officemax. gear up for great®. welcome back to "way too early." voters in iran have dealt the country's hard liners a serious blow in the first election since last year's nuclear deal. moderates and reformers allied with president hassan rouhani claimed sweeping victories for parliament and a powerful assembly charged with choosing the top religious leader. the voting was seen as a referendum on the nuclear deal and virtually every prominent critic of the pact was defeated. let's turn to stocks. the s&p posted three straight monthly declines since 2011. the dow had the first monthly gain since november.

cnbc's julia chatterley joins us live from london for more. julia, it's a mixed bag. what are you hearing from investors? >> good morning, jonathan. you're right it's a mixed bag. some of the slight bounce-back that we saw in february for u.s. stocks fizzled yesterday. the dow and the nasdaq posting three straight months of losses but the dow managing to rise and i think a lot of investors now wondering whether or not february represents some kind of change in sentiment and actually it's time perhaps to go bargain hunting in u.s. stocks here. what's critical of course is the oil market and what we saw in february again was a price rise in oil overall. that's the first time since october of last year. so that could be critical. but overall, look to gold. the safest asset. that rallied 10% last month. so investors still very uncertain. now, a little less uncertainty for apple. they defeated the u.s. government in a ruling in -- over unlocking the iphone in an

existing case. this could be pivotal for apple in other cases where the u.s. government is trying to get them to unlock iphones. obviously the most high profile is the san bernardino massacre case. watch today because we have fbi director james comey, we have got apple vice president fighting it out in front of the house judiciary committee today. so certainly one to watch for apple. back to you. >> thank you. it was a difficult day in court for sports reporter erin andrews as she took the stand in her $75 million civil trial yesterday. ious hours before her testimony, the man convicted of stalking andrews explained in a taped deposition how he altered a hotel room peep hole to secretly film her. nbc's morgan radford reports. >> reporter: erin andrews still haunted by the video that she says has damaged her career. >> i feel so embarrassed and i'm so ashamed. >> reporter: her chance to look jurors seven women and five men in the eye and tell her side of the story. >> my naked body was on the

front page of "the new york post" like they had put bars on my body parts. my girlfriend was calling me was telling me she was running around new york city throwing coffee on all the papers because she felt so bad. >> reporter: just hours earlier andrews left the courtroom as her stalker explained the sordid details of the day he secretly recorded her. >> i walked by her room. >> reporter: in two taped deposition videos, michael barrett explained how he followed her to the nashville hotel room and altered the peep hole. >> i waited for the opportunity. >> was it your intent to get her without clothes on? >> yes. >> reporter: her mother paula described the embarrassment her daughter continues to face. >> it's a nightmare that doesn't stop. we kept telling her it's not your fault. you're a victim. you have been -- you have been assaulted. >> reporter: andrews devastated. >> it upsets me, it's so

embarrassing. it was my private time. i never thought this could happen. i never thought -- i never thought a hotel would let somebody next to me without telling me. time now for sports and we begin with some highlights on the college court. the number one kansas jayhawks had a return to the top of the a.p. poll and the jayhawks exclusively claimed the big 12 after a 30-point win over number 23 texas last night. to ames, aye, this looks like it's no good, but don't worry. it fooled the officials and me. it's ruled a miss, but the review shows that the ball went through the hoop, bounced off the defender's head and back out through the top. oh. as for the game, iowa state beats osu 58-50. turning now to the nba where in los angeles the clippers

introduced a new mascot against the visiting nets. chuck the condor who clippers owner introduced as the wing man. it was a soaring entrance. after the mascot's debut, it was the microsoft's ceo time to shine. he celebrated with his high flying trampoline dunk. >> blow out a knee, jonathan. 59. that's impressive. >> yeah. much more impressive than chuck the condor. >> i know. chuck, come on, really? come on, l.a. bill karins, what's going on with the weather? >> an interesting forecast for some of our voting states. we will have a lot of severe weather out there. we won't have tornados that's great. but we still have to deal with damaging winds and lightning too. they're racing through little rock, texarkana. 23 million people at risk for

the severe storms in arkansas and a lot are the super tuesday states. region by region, we'll show you what dealsing with the -- who's dealing with the bad weather. in georgia and in alabama too. as far as the north, up in vermont we have a winter storm coming for northern new england for late tonight. th that's not affecting the turnout for today. 44 in boston. that snow and ice will hold off. through tennessee today, alabama and georgia, we will have a line of storms. it's a fast moving line, so it will be 15 or 30 minutes at most. but if you're at a polling station waiting outside you don't want to be in that squall when it comes through. we'll clear it out in oklahoma and and colorado and minnesota and north dakota, no problem there is. a little cold, jonathan, in minnesota. but again, the southeast is where we could have, you know,

some minor problems if anyone is at a polling station caught outside. they may have to run back to the car. but there's the worst of it. not too bad. still ahead, we're not quite done with sports just yet. the third rail of politic, golf. how a trump presidency could change the golf. "way too early" is back in a minute. ...earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. with the united mileageplus explorer card, you'll get a free checked bag, two united club passes, priority boarding, and 30,000 bonus miles. everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. the united mileageplus explorer card. imagine where it will take you. try cool mint zantac. hey, need fast heartburn relief? it releases a cooling sensation in your mouth and throat. zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. nexium can take 24 hours. try cool mint zantac. no pill relieves heartburn faster.

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until now. a dmv report has revealed that last month, an autonomous lexus suv struck a bus while on a test drive in california. while changing lanes because of sandbags in the road, the google car anticipated the bus would slow down and the bus driver believed the car would withdraw from merging. in a statement, google said that its most recent accident was part of the negotiation that goes on between drivers. google car has only reported mostly fender benders and zero injuries. this morning a moment ten years in the making. yesterday, justice clarence thomas subjected a lawyer in a gun control case to oral arguments. it has been ten years and one week for his questions. explanations for his record silence have been varied. he gave 2340 reason for why he chose to break it now. but some have concluded it is in some way related to the death of

justice antonin scalia whose chair is still covered in black next to thomas' seat on the supreme court bench. finally with the pga tour headed to trump doral in miami for the world golf championship this weekend, the golf channel yesterday broke down the effect a trump presidency would have on the sport as a whole. take a look. >> if he gets elected president of the united states, now you have a leader of the free world that is vested and invested in the game of golf. the game has never had that before. it's still a political hot p potato. until that's a presidency of -- there's a presidency of donald trump, and you don't have to hide behind him playing. >> the subject of golf came up, and he said it's small potato, i will leave it up to my executives to have fun with i.

do you believe he's over golf? >> it's interesting. i think we'll see it this week. he'll supposedly show up for the tournament. i have to believe if it's so small potatoes he was no longer interested in it, he wouldn't be showing up in miami during the world golf championship. >> that does it for me and "way too early." coming up on "morning joe" presidential candidate ben carson joins us live. can he pull off a surprise win in any of the 11 republican states tonight? and senator ben sasse will join us also and he'll look outside the party if trump is the nominee.

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