national spelling bee. can add that to the list of annual traditions canceled by the coronavirus. officials announced that they could see no way to safely reschedule this year. scripps says it will not change the eligibility requirements for next year's bee. that means that kids who are in eighth grade now will miss out on competing one last time. joining us are two competitors who had been training for the event. simone caplan was a finalnist last year's bee. hi, simone. >> hi. >> and navneth marali won last year's south asian spelling pbe. >> hello. >> hi. >> what was your reaction when you heard the spelling bee was canceled? >> oh, that was a bad day. i was hurt to put it simply. i've been expecting that even when the bee would return i'd still be eligible. after studying for thousands of hours, i didn't expect that the entire age group would be disqualified. >> navneth, i'm guessing you had frustration about not being able to compete even virtually. we'll talk about in a minute. how did you react when

spelling bees caught on, including by that name, spelling bee. trials in spelling? or how about spelling combat? don't that sound wholesome? or my favorite, a spelldown. spelldown. so the event itself is interesting enough, but that brings us back to this year's winner, zaila avant-garde, the first african-american to win the scripps national spelling bee. it's not the kind of accolade black kids get often. black spellers got the spotlight in "akeelah and the bee." the real-life akeelah, you guys, i'm so happy in my heart, unquote. it was a happy moment for many people, the kind of winner we don't often see at spelling bees. but is it so rare to see black students excel at this? here's the thing. >> why la avant-garde is the first african-american winner of the scripps national guard bee, but she is not the first black winner of any national spelling bee. the first bee before scripps was involved was sponsored by the national education association, the teachers union. it took place at the cleveland hippodrome in june of 1908. back then, competito

we can't say for sure what is killing the bees.ng a new review of neonicotinoineonicoti. they tell you, for instance, there are more beehives in america now than there were in the past, which is technically true. but that is only because beekeepers have constantly having to divide they're hides to make up for these huge losses. they tell you bees are flourishing in canola fields but for some reason the neonicotinoid effect isn't as severe. there are certain slightly misleading things the industry is doing and i do feel like there is a concerted effort to make the science more confusing. >> right. >> you can find a study pretty much that says whatever you want on this issue. you can find studies that say that the bees are definitely in danger and you can find often industry-funded studies that say they are not. >> you often chart how integral the bees have been. it was really interesting to read it and you are reporting that the pilgrims were so into bees that they actually boxed them up, took that hard journey over the atlantic and

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of any spelling bee. took place at the cleveland hippodrome in june of 1908. back then competitors were on teams from various cities including new orleans, boston, pittsburgh, and cleveland. but the new orleans team threatened to drop out when they realized who they would be competing against. one of the girls on the cleveland team was black. it took some convincing but organizers were able to keep the new orleans contestants in the game and it was a very different game. part written exam, part oral spelling. the team with the best score would win. in the end, cleveland won the bee. and one of its spellers had a perfect score. the black girl. her name was marie bolden, a 14-year-old. 14, just like zaila avant-garde. the delegates at the convention reportedly erupted in applause when she won. even the other teams cheered for her. civil rights leader booker t. washington was one of the convention's speakers. after marie bolden's victory, he said, quote, we spell out of the same spelling book that you do. an

the spelling bee was held and one of the pts meetings.ing their children. when i won the fifth grade spelling bee, it made me more confident. when our teachers were telling us mexican ended up patchy kids that we were not as smart as the anglo kids, i would remember the spelling bee that i won. it helped bolster my confidence no matter what, the teacher said. suzanne in portland, oregon rights, i was an 11-year-old girl in a catholic elementary school in seventh grade 1960 in rochester new york, and our school was chosen to have a spelling bee and send our winner to a large competition. i want to spelling bee and a boy in my class came in second place. the non-in charge took me aside and told me that, because he was a boy, he would be able to go to the big competition. i just accepted that and never sent awards anyone, including my parents, to this day. after hearing your news about this on the nbc yesterday, i told a couple of my close girlfriends. but this is always haunted me. wow. we got a number of comments like this one from carole

still to cop, the difference between roseanne barr and samantha bee is that samantha bee was right. kind of says that coming up. first tonight's thing 1, thing 2 is next. >>> thing 1 tonight, president trump is on a nonstop crusade to discredit the mueller investigation. today he introduced a new line of attack tweeting a.p. has just reported the russia hoax investigation has now cost our government over $17 million and going up fast. it's $16.7 million but rounding up is fine. that is a big hunk of change. you could buy this nice private jet, still have a few million over or this luxury estate in the bahamas, boat not included or if you're president trump could you golf a handful of times. that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> during the 2016 campaign, donald trump loved to attack barack obama about his golfing. >> you need leadership. you can't fly to la to play golf. obama it was recover theed today played 250 rounds of golf. >> obama went golfing every day. >> goff, golf, golf, golf. more, more. learning how to chip, learning how to hit the drive, learning how to putt. i want more.

if bees go away, so does the food. bees are vital to the nation's economy. pollen'sating efforts contribute to the economy. president obama a wonk willing to look at the science, he took the issue seriously. he formed a special task force to deal with protecting poll pollinators and deal with the crisis and stave off the decline of the honey bees. that work is getting thrown out the window. the trump administration announced it is suspended its bee survey due to budget constraints. just this week, the trump administration approved new usages for a pesticide that even the trump administration said is highly toxic to bees. no good. turns out that was just a curtain raiser for the big show though. that's next. the big show though that's next. don't miss your golden opportunity to experience the luxury you desire on a full line of utility vehicles. at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. lease the 2019 rx 350 for $389 a month, for 36 months, and we'll make your first month's payment. experience amazing. [ text notification now that you have] new dr. scholl'

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, musical pun bee reference.lot of people don't realize. i had no idea this inner dependence in the food systems and the economy of this one sort of insect, right? explain to us why this particular species, if you will, has such far reaching impacts? >> well, they pollinate, as you said, one of every three mouthfuls you have. they add $16 million worth of value to american agriculture, apples, almonds, a to z. >> almonds, 4 billion in california. >> right. that's the single biggest one. almonds are might get for california wine grapes. double the wine grape market. without the honey bees, you wouldn't be able to sell them, raise them the way we do. >> my daughter is deeply concerned about this story. you were saying we don't know exactly what the culprit is, but there are a couple of theories out there. what are some of the theories. >> there's a number of causes. one is pesticides, there's a particular class that's been in use in the last 15 years or so, and seem to back bees even at levels that should be strang

should she be fired, samantha bee? >> i actually believe samantha bee should be fired.ieve roseanne barr should have been fired. i'll tell you why i have issues with samantha bee. that word is vile in and of itself, but for someone in her position and her producers have some culpability here because this is live tv like -- >> so they all agreed this will pass muster. >> yes, and you talk about the culture wars. this is where we are. we were talking about it in the break. we're at the lowest -- >> who defined decency downward in this country? >> donald trump. >> thank you. >> absolutely. >> break the tie here. should samantha bee be fired? let me ask you a real reporter's question. ready? will the corporate power structure that decides these things come down on her or not? >> two things. the first thing is that if they fire her now, they'll look like they're getting rid of her in response to president trump. that raises a whole other set of issues for the corporation. the second thing is -- >> you mean like they did with the football players. >> yeah, yeah. the corporati

if bees go away, so does the food. bees are vital to the nation's economy.te more than $15 billion annually to the u.s. farming industry. so of course president obama, sort of a wonk, willing to look tow science on stuff like that. willing to take it seriously. he even created a special task force to deal with protecting pollinators, to deal with the crisis torque stave off the decline of the honey bees. that work is getting thrown out the window. early they are month, the trump administration announced it's suspending its bee survey due to budget constraints. just this week, the trump administration approved broad new uses for pesticide that even the trump administration says it was toxic to bees. that's just the curtain raiser for the big show. that's next. big show that's next. >>> for weeks we have been covering the trump administration's to take apart science. dozens of high level scientists working as career civil servants at that agency were told they had a grand total of one month to decide whether they would move halfway across the country in order

samantha bee thrives. is not a feminist, she's a hateful provoccator that should not be given a platform. >> not a feminist, does that seem credible to you? >> no, it's not credible at all. i'll just point to the different standards here. one is the thing that what roseanne said has the weight of the dee hume nan nyzation of black people behind it and the thing that samantha bee said it sps only a bad word because of how women review women. and she talks about women's reproductive organs all the time usually in celebration of them and the government's attempt to control people. i think she's definitely a feminist. that's crazy to say that she's not. i'm not a body language expert, but if i would say shawna thomas has a thing or two to say about this. >> i think one of the things is put a lot of this stuff aside. there's a cost benefit analysis for these comes. tbs in one case, abc in another. roseanne barr went out as someone in her personal capacity on twitter and called valerie -- compared her to a goril

legal help is here. >>> we now turn to a story about bees. yes, bees.little insects that do a lot more than provide the honey in your tea. they sting acti, they swarm, thn incite fear. they can even upstaged president obama at the easter egg roll last year. that's okay, guys. they won't sting you. they'll be okay. wait, wait, wait. >> the president is actually right. bees are good because bees pollinate the fruits, nuts and vegetables that are crucial for our diets and the nation's food industry. experts have said that you can thank a pollinator for one out of three bites of food that you eat. a vital part of our economy also rides on the tiny little backs of bees. they contributing more than $15 billion in value to agricultural crops each year in the united states. yet the buzz around bees has been bad lately. bee keepers have for years been reporting unusually high losses of 30% to 90% of their hives. over the past decade, billions of bees have been lost to good called colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon in which the majority of worker bees in a co

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guys, samantha bee doubling down. i'll start with you., she was obviously required to put out an apology yesterday. if you look at it, seemed per fu funt fu functo rrk functory. >> what samantha bee said about ivanka trump was crude and it was offensive. she used a word that has been used to demean women. sure, absolutely. she apologized for it. fine. there is no comparison between that and what roseanne barre did. it draws upon a racial history in the country going back before the civil war that has been used to oppress americans. and so that's the first thing. the second issue here is that samantha bee is a comedian who was using crude language actually to confront and i would say even, i'll just say, to confront a president that has, and a white house and an administration that has supported racism and supported bigotry. that is not the same thing as rosanne bar using crude language way worse in defense of that kind of cannon. >> i think, you know, when we talked about morning joe, my syllogism here is racism is not vulgarity. they're

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the characters in grey bees must keep living.l gray space between soldier and citizen. that idea of living, not just surviving, is something i heard from people off the page in real life in ukraine. from -- who fled the fighting east new crane to pull in last year, but has since returned home. >> it's like war changes. i grew up in one day, one night, wake up at 4 am and you grow up. you just understand that you are, a lot of people are not leaving, just existing. people just try to survive. >> a lot of people don't live, they just exist, they try to survive. that's what she told me on. the pages of gray bees, quote, they blew something up, they thought, was not that close, just the caliber down. if it was closed it would have thrown out a bed and it's a shell hit the house i would've stayed in my dream where it is cozier and low -- warmer and life, and quote. gray bees -- a year into the war, and nearly a decade into russia invaded crimea, it tax things of idly, home, community, and culture. such a short words for such a big con

do democrats think samantha bee should face greater consequences? >> no.nally agree with what the right normally says on this. that we shouldn't have a safe space that you shouldn't be drummed out of the public square for one offensive comment and that's what sam bee's thing was, one offensive comment. while she made one vile comment, roseanne barr is actually a vile racist person and the problem with roseanne's statements was not the statement itself, although that was very problematic in and of itself. but it reminded us all, this lady is super racist and she has been for a long time. you don't get a platform. >> okay. good to see all four of you, thank you so much. appreciate it, crystal, jason, michelle, rick. >>> coming up next, how could president trump have been so confident to go ahead with the north korean summit without reading that letter from kim jong un. >>> ahead on "a.m. joy" the arrest of a wisconsin teenager raises new questions about police use of force. i'm really into this car, but how do i know if i'm getting a good deal? i tell trueca

. >> she thinks she's queen bee in the santa rita jail. the deputies are the queen bees. we run the houses. >> some people say you don't find friends in jail. i think victims don't find friends in jail. there's a lot of us that actually click together. >> i'm just loud, i guess. i have a lot to say. i think most of the deputies here, they all know me by name because i'm pretty loud. >> go to your window! >> she's very lively, she's very personable. she loves to talk. she loves to have the spotlight on her so to speak. >> happy birthday. >> thank you. >> she came in, it's just like the average everyday person. over the years of her coming back again and again and again.

you have spelling bees in class and spelling bees this and that and what is interesting, there aren't schools an elementary schools and one of the hopes of having this. these kids that participate in it, i want to play a clip of you interacting with one one of the kids in the finals i believe from last year. i want to play it. >> you would like to become a travel book writer. where have you been that was a lot of fun? >> here. >> it is uniquely shaped flag and represents what mountainous country in asia. >> what is nepal. sgluf been dying to do that, haven't you? you are right. >> obviously that was not last year. >> no, it was not. my apologies but these kids have a lot of personality. >> oh, yeah. as you just saw the young boy was waiting. i told him you have been waiting to do that phrase, phrase your response in the form of a question and he says yeah. what is great about these kids, they are not one die mentional. they are interested in science and math. >> you don't get the sense they are memorizing. >> no. there are clues that come up that have to do not only with what we would

we found bees.he biggest hive i've ever seen. >> this week, a new study from the royal holloway university of london may have gotten to the root cause, and surprisingly, it has nothing to do with ted cruz. this whole rant has nothing to do with ted cruz. really. they found the cause of colony collapse disorder is stress on the bees. they encounter pesticides and parasites and diesel fumes in doses too small to kill them, but those things can cause stress, which makes bees behave ear i can't tellcally. dead bees get replaced but impaired bees do not. the hive stands behind them. over time, if enough bees feel enough stress and behave unprovocative actively, the whole colony becomes affected and the whole colony can perish or shut down. that's kind of how it is with any nation, special america nowadays, a social colony of interdependent workers, a few of whom have grown extraordinarily stressed out, leading them to behave erratically, leading them to lurch about from crisis to crisis, driven by partis

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but samantha bee was hired to be a partisan vulgarian.said, the problem with our institutions, no one considers themselves an insider any more, has responsibility for being better and being a good steward. everyone considers themselves an outsider. >> last word here, you quote president obama saying we're 10 to 20 years too soon. oh, we're not ready for you? >> what he was talking about was the demographics of the country and what he would like to say -- what he used to say in private is there's going to be an asian barack obama, latino barack obama. but the demographics he arrived before the demographic tipping point. part of this is the media eco system. as i say in there, a majority of republicans don't think he was born in america. >> the book the world as it is, good luck with it. that's all we have for today. thanks for watching. as always, if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." touch-sensitivity... ♪ uncompromising protection... advanced connectivity... and one more thing... the world comes with it. the new, reimagined 2019 jeep ch

spelling bee in washington, d.c.ut here's where it gets even weirder than that. because while this was going on at the same time the word tchotchke was helping another kid take down another spelling bee, this one in kansas city, missouri, where 11-year-old sophia hoffman and her 13-year-old nemesis kush sharma blew through 47 rounds head to head just the two of them in the jackson county, missouri spelling bee. they went through so many rounds that the pronouncer and the judges ran out of words. they ran out of the approved words provided by scripps. so the judges took i lunch break, and then they enlisted the help of merriam webster to try to find some extra words. words like intaglio, which is an engraving or incised figure in stone or other hard material. can you spell intaglio? yeah, i had no idea that's what that word was. no idea. also, schadenfreude, another word i use but have no idea how to spell. obviously it's the enjoyment obtained from the mishaps of others. s-c-h-a-d-e-n-f-r-e-u-d-e. what? there's no u

the fbi says both the marathon bombs were made with pressure cookers and metal bee-bees. they contained hobby fuse similar to this. at the scene of thursday night's shootout in watertown, investigators say they found another bomb and hobby fuse and bee-bees. the fbi says they searched dzhokhar tsarnaev's dorm room and found bee-bees in what they call a large pyrotechnic and found a white hat and black jacket, resembling what was worn by the man in the suspect photos released by the fbi. a former federal prosecutor says it's a surprising startling start. >> they took a great unknown, which was last monday and made it virtually unknown a week later. that for the entirety of the law enforcement should be combhited to their efforts. >> court documents contain new details about thursday night's carjacking. the fbi show tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev in cambridge at a gas station where they drove with the owner of the suv they carjacked. one began the carjacking by pointing a gun at the driver and saying, "did you hear about the boston explosion? i did get" the carjacker showed

i have new statements from tbs and from samantha bee. >> tbs says bee has taken the right action in apologizing. those words should not have aired. it was our mistako too, and we regret it. the white house seizing on this, i don't want to make the comparison with roseanne barr but they seem to be doing it. >> this caught fire several hours ago and the white house came out and responded via press secretary sarah huckabee sanders n. it they call the word, the comments from samantha bee vile and vicious. the white house saying that the connective silence by the left and its media ally is appalling. you can see that statement there. i think that might be where the complicit comparison to roseanne is coming in. the press secretary adds her disgusting comments and show are not fit for broadcast. the statement goes on from there. you allude to the idea that tbs has now seemed to say that the apology is going to be what you will get from sam bee. there was nothing about a suspension or anything like that. it seems like the network believes this has been put to bed with its states and with bee's stateme

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i'm not sure how you calm down a bee. but here is the latest what is buzzing around the sports world. >> good morning you to, betty. we're going to start with the nba eastern conference finals. watch this. >> he does it! he does it! they count the basket. >> he does it. 0.1 seconds left in the half there. indiana gets a lucky tap before the first half. paul journgeorge scores 14 poin. miami's defense steps up. lebron james steals right here. dwyane wade following up. he gets the beauty of a dunk. they win 87-83. series tied one game all. they had a 1.7% chance of winning. the cleveland cavaliers get the number one nba draft pick again. that's three in the last four years. it was the daughter of the bucks co-owner who stole the show. that woman represented at the draft. her twitter following ballooned from 250 to 24,000 after being on tv. too bad the bucs which have a 20% chance of getting number one got number two. >> super bowl 52 and 2018 will be played in minnesota. congratulations. >> vikings new $1 billion stadium wi

bee's word is vile in and of itself. for someone in her position with a show and her producers have culpability. this was taped. >> that's one of the bizarre pieces. >> it sets the barlow. >> they all agreed this will pass muster. >> this is where we are at the lowest common denominator. >> ho defined decency downward? >> donald trump. absolutely. >> break the tie here. >> let me ask you a real reporter's question. ready? will the corporate power structure that decides these things come down on her or not? >> well two, things. the first thing is that if they fire her now, they'll look like they're getting rid of her in response to president trump. that raises a whole other set of issues for the corporation. the second thing. >> you mean like they did with the football players. >> yeah, the corporation will having more criticism. >> here we go. the "washington post" phillip rucker covered trump as a candidate in 2016 tweeted today for what it's worth the word samantha bee used and words such as that was emblazoned on many

as the bees stung first responders bee keepers arrived as part of the removal plan. >> allergic to beese, too. >> keep the windows up. >>> the number two trender, rocky roads. >> massive storms hit the denver area on wednesday afternoon. >> large hail blanketing much of the state of colorado. >> we've got hail. >> a super cell storm leaves inches of hail in the mile high city. >> the hail quarter size that shattered windows. >> in some cases in this parking lot the hail is eight inches to a foot deep. >> how is the weather up there? >> in today's top trender, not loving it. >> fast food workers arrested while demanding raises. >> organizers calling for increase in minimum wage to $15 an hour. >> their demonstration timed to coincide with the annual shareholder meeting. >> they rallied on mcdonald's property and were met with police in riot gear. >> the fight for fair wages heads to mcdonald's headquarters. >> we talked to other workers. >> mcdonald's is the leader of the industry. >> mcdonald's made $5.6 billion in profit. >> the chairman got $9.5 million in salary. >> they say we do wo

oh, no it's a bee. it's okay guys. bees are good. they won't land on you. >> bees are good.me bees made an appearance at the easter egg roll. screaming while the president was trying to read where the wild things are. how appropriate. the president tried to hold back laughter as he assured the kids the bees woud not hurt them. that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. i'm joined now by best selling author. ellis. >> i hope those kids didn't believe that line. politicians will tell you anything. >> speaking of politician lots of buzz today about rand paul making an announcement to run for 2016. how does he plan to stand out from the rest of the pack? >> the question right now is does he want to stand out. you know the great paul family the libertarian tradition. rand has decided he would like to get elected, he seems to be inching closer and closer to the center. the first question is how different does he want to be. i don't think we know that yet. >> one thing is he wants marijuana reform a campaign issue. this is going to appeal to a younger crowd. >> you think so?

pounds of bees.year-old beekeeper needed was a cigarette and some honey. yes, he was stung more than 2 2,000 times. >> the people that put him in the water didn't even have gloves on. you'd think he'd want a cold shower. he jumped into a hot tub after that. all for the record books. >> when was the last time you were stung by a bee? how long? >> last year i got stung. >> you got one? >> yeah. it was not pleasant. thanks for watching. "way too early" starts right now. >> american soccer fans have stood by while the media stands by. finally soccer is getting its perp walk. seven high ranking officials of the governing body are under arrest. >> it looks to me like they're going to money for all the money they stole. >> good morning. the latest developments in the fifa corruption scandal as the president of the organization faces reelection tomorrow. and step right up. the republican presidential field gets even more crowded with the arrival of rick santorum. we'll tell you who's also joining the race to

let's talk the samantha bee controversy. using a word incredibly charged, let's just say that, in a very negative context. some people have made linguistic arguments about how people are trying to change this to a more positive. this was not used in a positive way. was she right to apologize? is this a word that is harshly sexist no matter what? is it different than the comments by roseanne barr? are racism and sexism on two different planes? >> i think they are part of one plane, and i think that the difference between roseanne and samantha bee is she apologized. her person a on her show, her persona on her show is who she is. she could have made that point without using that horrible word, and i don't think this is a word that ever needs to be mainstreamed, okay. i don't think we can get there. and roseanne has a history of the kind of tweets we saw that got her fired and issued a sort of half hearted, please forgive me, not apology apology. and so i think that, you know, when you find yourself in this situation, when you'

the scripps spelling bee.iastic and fun to watch though it can be misguided at times. >> karbaragoya. >> i know it! i know it! i totally know it. okay. c-a-b-a-r-a-g-o-y-a. what? >> the spellers aren't the only ones. >> did they say he was 15 and in eighth grade? can you be 15 in eighth grade? >> i don't know. sometimes even the moderator can slip up, tom. >> watch phrase reaction on language of origin. >> tabitha discovered while her milk shake brought all the boys to the yard -- oh, boy. oh, i'm sorry. i was reading the wrong sentence. time is ticking. enjoy the dish at a cafe in sao palo. >> i think that's not an appropriate song either. this competition ended up with classic head to head matchup. it came down the miss. >> if you spell this correctly, we will declare you co-champions. >> get the letters out there. >> okay. whatever. >> however you say it, just spell it. >> f-e-u-i-l-l-e-t-o-n. >> correct. >> ladies and gentlemen, we have a tie. that's 14-year-old new yorker sririm and 13-year-old texas an a

scripts annual spelling bee begins today. new rule this year contestants will be asked not only to spell the word, but also define it. >> they have to define the word? >> i don't think this is fair. the spelling director told the "boston globe" our purpose is not only to help students improve spelling but to increase vocabulary and help develop them. >> you have to know what it kind of means. then it's all subjective. >> i don't even know what that means. you're way over my head. if you watch the bee on tv, you may not notice because they will be asked off camera so what fun is that. >> i don't get it. we'll see what goes on. we need a bynes update. >> let's make the transition to a spelling bee to a much more highbrow story. it keeps gets wog for amanda bynes. she appeared in court in a messy blond wig. she was arrested for smoking marijuana and throwing a bong out of her apartment window. in a rambling tweet this weekend the former star vowed to sue the nypd for unlawful arrest. >> we don't want to mock anyone who has troub

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the spelling bee was held in one of the pts meetings.or beating their children. when our teachers were telling us mexican and apache kids that we were not as smart as the anglo kids, i would remember the spelling bee that i won. it would bolster my confidence. suzanne writes, i was an 11-year-old girl in 1960 in rochester, new york. and our schools chose to have a spelling bee and sent the winner to a competition. i won the spelling bee and the boy in our class came in second place. the nut in charge, said because he was a boy he would be able to go to the big competition. i accepted that, and never said a word to anyone, including my parents to this day. about hearing thbt a about this on msnbc yesterday, i told a couple of close girlfriends. but this has always haunted. carol writes, i have one correction to your historical interpretation of zaila's winning of the scripps national spelling bee. however, you missed the actual second black spelling bee champion and the first black scripps winner, that was 12-year-old jody anne maxwell za

that's why gwynnie bee existed. this company which she put millions of dollars into was a proof of concept. >> the first pitch step has a platform. it's going to take us a little while to get there. we will eventually get there sniept the platform is castle. it now takes up the bulk of christine's 400-plus person company. castle is a service that allows any retailer to enter into the new economy for apparel. it's the technology, the logistics, the front end consumer experience and even the customer service that allows any retailer to quickly offer a rental service to their consumers. >> i have my own clothing line, jj's clothing. i use your service and now i'm renting it out easily. >> you'll have jj's rental.com or whatever fancier name you come up with. >> you don't like that name. >> jj's stale box. >> maybe my brand wouldn't work but there are big names that thil they can. >> christine signed up ann taylor, new york and company and express. jim hill is the chief customer experience officer of express. >> the ren

these bees, these worker bees, the working class of nature need representation.olutely. they have nobody speaking for them and we do not account for the value they create for us with. >> one of the things that is the most powerful and timely is that it is talk about environmentism and responsibility in the framework of the economy. for a long time it's been framed as sort of a moral responsibility which i agree with on some level. but the economics part is a hugely powerful incentive for both sides of the aisle. >> actually currently it is hitting our bottom line. we're going to feel in the our pockets. the fact that we don't account for the damages that business has on the environment is allowing people to put off their costs on to the rest of society and future generations. so they can pretend like they're making a lot of money but they are not accounting for all the negative costs because they go on to the rest of us. >> cheap products, petroleum-based products have a ripple effect. the polluting of streams and the creation of health problems, those -- there a

now, while bees can be pesky, we actually need them. for colony collapse, get what one reason the bee population's dwindling might be. yep, you got it, our rapidly warming climate. insects could be totally extinct, prompting what scientists call a catastrophic collapse of nature. so in a sense, bees may be the buzzy little canaries in the coal mine for the whole planet and may also be able to teach us something about how we move forward. we don't have all the answers for why bees are disappearing, but we do know that what we're doing to planet earth is causing a lot of problems. sea levels are rising, entire states are burning, and heat waves are making it unsafe for many to be outside at all. so let's take a page from the bees. we need to start thinking about this. it's not just climate change or even a climate crisis. but as the threat of a climate collapse. and that collapse looms closer every single day, unless our politicians decide to actually do something about it. i'm joined by jamie margolin, co-founder of zero hour and nbc new

samantha bee talking specifically about ivanka trump.ne barr comparing a senior adviser of the obama administration to an ape is talking about the historic breakdown and dismembering of black people from their humanity. that's the conversation -- >> they are both bad. >> not both bad at the same level. >> they are both bad. >> but not the same level. >> that's the distinction. but not at the same level. when you are talking about comparing black people to animals, that is the way that you were able to justify slavery to yourself, to say that we were chattel, so you don't get to then say oh, yeah, it's the same thing as us calling -- as samantha bee saying a vulgar thing about ivanka trump, talk is specifically about ivanka trump and made an off-color thing about ivanka trump. she is not talking about all white women with blond air or of a certain age. >> you always go back to something donald trump himself has said. he's called women a "c." he brought ted nugent into the white house after he called -- >> and had supporters wearing that w

this is her fifth bee. her sister won six years ago.scherenschnitte. >> both so good the bee ran out of words and declared a tie for the second year in a row. >> so we saw it last year but before that there hadn't been a tie in more than half a century and there was some discussion about whether they need to switch up the rules or the procedures a bit to try to avoid that. everybody thought last year maybe was a bit of a fluke, and then it happened again. >> i am in awe -- did you hear how long that word was she was spelling? >> i don't know what it means. tracy, thank you. >>> in japan a vkolcano erupted earlier this morning. they issued an emergency evacuation. roughly 140 people live on that island. no reports of injuries. the volcano erupted last summer in japan. nine minutes past the hour. time to get down to business. >> good morning. jpmorgan is reportedly cutting about 5,000 jobs over the next year. "the wall street journal" says it's mostly from consumer banking. it's going to focus on internet and mobile banking. and grocery s

and on the side of bees.rs. we have a chart in the magazine about all of the crops that we produce in america, fruits and vegetables, we consume and produce that depend on pollination, almonds, 100% depend on bee pollination. >> i didn't know that. >> i didn't know that. >> it's true. they're a huge export for california and -- >> what else? >> and they're really in trouble. apples, avocados, asparagus, those are just the as. >> without bees what happens? >> without bees there's a lot of pressure on these crops and farmers are going to have to find, you know, if you imagine as we say on our cover line, a world without bees, farmers will have to imagine different ways to pollinate these crops. it's a huge challenge. let alone as we saw for the bee keepers who are also going out of business. >> how significantly a rate are they dying off? >> so there's good news and bad news. i'll start with the bad news. bad news, last winter, for example, one third of the honey bee colonies died or disappeared. >> what? >> an

but, again, this -- what we're talking about, out of 325,000 people trying to find a per ver bee y'all needle in a haystack was accomplished yesterday with a little over 100 people detained for further questioning from these countries. people are moving out of the system and moving forward. this obviously is going to be, i believe, a very smooth and effective operation for the safety of americans across the country. >> we move on to a couple of other things. there was an issue on friday, the white house put out a statement on holocaust remembrance day and there wasn't a mention of jews in the statement of any -- of the victims of the holocaust that a majority of them were jewish. many of us thought it was an error. it turns out it was not. a conservative columnist wrote this, the final solution was aimed solely at the jews. there is no proud way to offer a recommend ambulance of the holocaust that does not offer that simple awful fact. to universal liez it to all those who suffered is to screw up the holocaust of its meaning. mr. priebus, do you understand why many jews were offended b

now modern touches. >> number two, bees are smart. bees are learn to form complex task.ey learn that task, the bees were able to train fellow bees to do the same thing. number one, space staysed announced it's going to fly two around the moon. there will not be a trained astro naught aboard. >>> president trump busy he tweeting. he comes two weeks after president called media fake news. this this morning former george w. bush talked to -- >> i consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. we need independent media to hold people like my account. power can be addictive and corrosive and it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, here or elsewhere. >> new comments from president trump saying intent to evil and bad, they write lies, they write lies. nice to have you back, jeff. i take it you have not heard anything further from the white house about the white house correspondence dinner where the president may decide to change his mind? >> i have not gotten any indication he will change his mind. on saturday, it was surprise we didn