his style, he is trying to to be a man of the people, but yet poneying up to king abdullah and bruce springsteen and jerry jones let's not talk about that and mike huckabee was making major gaffe talking about homosexuality and placing it, framing it as a vice which he believes you're not going to win an election on the national level. >> it's a long way off. they haven't had debates yet. christie has had a bad month or so, people are not talking about him the way they were. the european trip was a disaster for him. he got involved in the vaccine issue. he needs to get better handling. >> is it him or his people? >> i think it's both. >> it's a big field there are great folks out there folks like scott walker emerging, catching fire among the grassroots, jeb bush there's a lot of folks and there's a lot of time yet. >> what do you think. i must admit i'm enjoying christy descend but on a more serious note i think whether it's those three candidates or it is republican candidates, the difficult will be to try to give as clear a message always val did a few minutes ago how do you support the inter

. >> it helps that she has bruce springsteen's songwriting skills. >> taylor is one of the greatest songwritersng ""15" that she wrote. >> the first time i heard her sing it it was a writer's night in new york city and she sang that and it was vince gil, trisha yearwood, taylor swift and me and she hits 15 and vince says listen to this lyric coming out of this girl. >> john rich co-wrote this song with taylor swift after she called him out of the blue. >> i said yeah. come on over and she pulls that guitar out and has some words already down and she starts tearing into this song the way i loved you. >> i said damn, that's great. she said you like it? i said let's work on the verses and it was 90 minutes, two hours max and the song was done. >> the way i loved you is about dating mr. right while loving mr. wrong. >> taylor said i brought that idea, that title to john and he was able to relate to it, and he's the complicated, frustrating messy guy in relationship. >> there you go. >> is it true? >> of course, it's true. yeah. >> that's the way i loved you. >> that song, along with "15" on are on

bruce springsteen, neil young jackson broan, and john mellencamp were among those who came out to saluten while raising money for the music cares. but it was the 73-year-old legend himself who stole the show. after being introduced by former president jimmy carter, dylan who spent decades honing the image of a reclusive reluctant super star, delivered his longest speech ever. >> critics say i can't sing, i croak, sound like a frog. ( laughter ) >> axelrod: dylan had a few things to get off his chest and spent much of his 40-minute speech lightning his load. >> critics say i mangle my mel disease, render my songs unrecognizable. oh really? >> axelrod: he took shots at songwriters who he said never liked his work, including jerry lieber and mike stoarl, who wrote some of elvis presley's early hit. >> because i didn't like their songs, either. ( laughter ) yakety,iac don't talk back. charlie brown is a clown novelty songs. >> axelrod: but bob dylan didn't spend all night settling scores. he thanked artists who made his songs his the bird, the turtles, sciony and cher. and he praised jimi he

just like bruce springsteen is going to show.iques oh my gosh speed people look at that dad cadillac. with you kidding. the velvet revolution was started by students. people who were my age. i went back in 1990. the there was nothing to buy there except potatoes and onions. by freedom of expression. it occurred in astonia. under soviet oppression. >> in one night, 10,000 men, women and children were taken from their homes. loaded into cattle cars. and shipped to slave labor camps in siberia. >> they livednder ee >> they lived under soviet rule for under 50 years. >> the xhoounist party issued a stern warning. waved the purred did en. today they call it the singing revolution. nearly a third of -- the soviets tried to stop the process by sending troops seizing the raydio stationed. eventually the soldiers backed off. >> people saying no more. >> what happens is when enough people say forget it i am no longer going to listen to what you are telling me to do and not two. that moment becomes when everything is exposed being a thin th

and taxpayers we pay people like john von jovi senator grassley, ted turner and bruce springsteen from7 through $20,113,000,000 are paid to farmers to prove nothing. through 10 million of course, keep this in mind with the chart that is iowa farmland it is up for a depressant since 2000 for the is it time to pull the plug on the subsidies? you don't ever want to make any one angry man i was. >> would you pay more for anything grown by springsteen? that is the way to market. because these guys are the ones and need the subsidies. but use the large celebrity farmers get the subsidies as well as the tax break they are double dipping i have yet to find something that they really produce. >> yes no videos a piece of land we're doing the same thing? but that is not the way that works stick but they have money in the private sector. >> there are millionaires. charles: as programs if you get money from the government it is means tested. >> what happened to free markets lighting supply and demand determine the price of the farmland term that the average taxpayer keep their money? >> but what ha

jon bon jovi, bruce springsteen, they help out. neil: you are already running.mitt romney thing has changed? we joke but not too much about how it changes the possible races in new jersey and how one guy leading the presidential contest was part of this. >> for the country as a whole it most certainly does and i think part of why it that he has something or and we are looking for someone who's not going to walk on in. i think that john kasich has this here. but joe represents new jersey's better than anybody that i know. neil: when is the last time that we had a funny president? so what do you think? >> i think this leaves a lot of room like someone such as scott walker to come in. >> one thing that is not brought up is that he has won three elections in a recall, running as a conservative in a blue state. this is not chris christie running in this way. and this is a conservative man ran and he won the race. sue on what do you think? >> and for that, what do they have you guys doing? >> you know, i'm not lucky few on when people know that you run, they are all g

stossel: in east germany bruce springsteen was allowed to perform and he sang born in the usa.e of the crowd that was there. i'm amazed they allowed this. they helped bring freedom to east germany? >> i would argue that it did. when you see the liberating force of rock 'n' roll music. >> and all these east germans singing born in the usa. >> and saying they wanted to tear down these barriers which meant the wall in berlin. >> you did the story on dallas in romania. >> they only had four hours of division a day. two hours generally speaking was dallas. they proved it -- stossel: it was going to show the excess of the evil decadence. >> they would show woody or critics of the american system. people who live in captive countries see this as, oh, my gosh, these people actually have freedom of expression which we don't have. that's great. meanwhile, look at that cadillac. are you kidding? those women can drink and hold huge shopping bags and do what they want. in romania dallas was the single biggest cultural force in that country. the velvet revolution was started by students. peo

brian lamb: bruce springsteen over in europe and you went to europe for a year to follow him around? went to two concerts with my friend jeff goldberg, also a writer. we went over there to madrid and southern france and saw two concerts. in part because i have listened to his voice more than any other voice outside of a family member since i have been 15. i listened to him constantly. brian lamb: why? david brooks: his music moves me, his worldview -- he is way to the left of me. there is a romantic quality to his writing, a love of the underdog. he emotionally opens you up and i love him for that. the madrid show was the best. he is probably 61 now and the madrid show was 3 hours and 50 minutes of energy. i am off to the side and he is singing "born in the usa." there are 65,000 spaniards singing along with him, "i was born in the usa. i was born in the usa." and i wanted to say, no you weren't born in the usa. it is a testimony to the power. --of particularity. springsteen, he had two first albums that were not successful, third album, "born to run," was very successful. the trajec

>> we would both very much like bruce springsteen to hug us. >> yes.e really? >> yes. >> how many times a week does biden show up in a wet bathing suit to a meeting? just a ballpark figure. >> i had to put out a presidential directive to stop that. i have to say, he looks pretty good. >> that's what you were talking about, toure. >> yeah, all of that stuff. who else could talk to christie and obama and malala and the conversations he had with bill o'reilly, no one will forget what he did on "crossfire," before the early iteration of that show which destroyed that show and changed cable news. >> now stephanie, it's remarkable that on the same day the news came of brian williams being suspended and jon stewart retiring two of the biggest names on the news won't be in air. in brian cases, at least for a while. that's pretty amazing, don't you think, steph? >> reverend i think my favorite comment, ironically on the brian williams thing came from jon stewart, finally someone is being held accountable with regard to a lie regarding iraq. you know when brian

ford, that dirty little coward that shot him in the back, there was a little song written by bruce springsteen some years ago, so he shoots him in the back, so when that happens, it becomes at this great american symbol of an individual guy who is literally hunted down and killed by his government. because robert ford had a deal with the governor of missouri at the time, he could just get rid of jesse james, he could get a pardon, and the that is what happened. that is why we care about jesse james. isn't that cool? so what happens? i just killed jesse james in 1882, but that is not the only image that is going on at the time. you have jesse james, who takes the cowboy off in a criminal direction, you also have the rise of buffalo bill cody, who is really becomes a public figure in late 1860's and late 1870's. he begins to play himself as a great western hero who is colorful and fighting hard for america, although he takes nothing from the government, of course that is not true, he was a government scout, i have a really interesting story that i don't have time for but i am going to tell you a

insurance workers got an up close look at bruce springsteen's lyric journals and thomas edison's originals. >>> they were jumping for heart at one bucks county school. kids in feasterville held a jump rope for heart event this afternoon to raise money for the american heart association. the kids jumped rope and at 1.75 students did a team jump roping demonstration. last year this events raised $3,000. a fun way to help a worthy cause. >> time for accuweather at the "action news" big board. it's my birthday. temperature should have been in the 50's. >> belated happy birthday sunday. >> i get to celebrate all weekend. >> all week. >> he'll probably celebrate for a month. that's what he does. sky 6 taking a look at the center city skyline and you can see it's still bright out there. the sun is now setting at 5:26. our daylight hours are definitely getting longer. today, though, we were stuck in the deep freeze. 31 degrees our current temperature. our high only hit 32. that's 10 degrees below average for this time of year. millville 31. trenton 29. allentown 25. and reading 27 degrees. the wi

. >> these are the greatest songs from the best albums of all time, bruce springsteen, oh yeah wild and innocent and e street shuffle, 1973 release. i loved this album. >>> another ferry disaster in bangladesh. seventy bodies have been pulled from the padma river after a ferry capsized. they say, there may have been as many as 140 people on board at the time of the ferry which has now been brought to shore. ferry accidents are pretty common in that country. it is home to more than 130 rivers. >>> four suspects believed to be responsible for a deadly explosion in ukraine today are under arrest. bomb went off in a march marking first anniversary of the ouster of the president of ukraine. ukraine officials say a police officer was one of the two people killed, a dozen other people were hurt. the attack comes amid renewed hopes that a peace agreement may take hole. >>> the new secretary of defense ashton carter makes his first trip to afghanistan to visit u.s. troops amid talks of possibly slowing down the planned draw down. abington high school graduate made it clear that our soldiers work

. ♪ >> john mellencamp willie nelson and bruce springsteen were just some of the performers who tookhe award to dylan last night was president jimmy carter. >> i'm proud to be here tonight for music cares and honored to have these artists singing my songs. i'm just crossing over jordan too. let's hope we meet again sometime and we will. it's like hank williams says. the good lord willing and the creek don't rise. >> this is really pretty extraordinary. we haven't seen bob dylan talk in public in quite a long time. he gives interviews occasionally. rarely on camera. this was a rambling half hour speech. he thanked peter, paul and mary johnny cash, he went through everybody he thought he owed a debt to. it was pretty cool. >>> coming up the controversy over a new novel from harper lee. is the author of "to kill a mockingbird" capable of making a decision to publish the book. for some your >>> good morning, everyone i'm nicole brewer. lets check that forecast feeling a little bit better this morning, right carol. >> yes you can feel lot better but we will take this. we have he got tempe

i'm like "we are the world" is michael jackson, bruce springsteen, cindy law per. want us to do "we are the world," but i knew the spirit of what she wanted. >> so you called john legend and he says -- >> he said we just have got to make it majestic. and i said yeah, okay that's right. this is about dr. king and the civil rights movement. >> you talk about common and they say he's a conscious rapper. a, what does that mean and how do you define your style and what you do? >> because i talk about social awareness in my songs. i talk about love. i talk about god. i talk about issues that i see going on. ♪ initially i was like why are they boxing me in and then i started to look at the legacy of conscious artists, whether it be bob marley or bob dylan and i thought, yes i'm conscious, i'm aware, i'm embracing the title artist now. ♪ time to get down ♪ >> i remember when you were common sense back in the early '90s. >>> in england surveillance video from a jewelry store shows a car smashing through the front windows of the store. several masked thieves jumped out. once

. >> you haven't had bruce springsteen. >> the tour tickets go on sale for $20. >> yes, ma'am. >> stickirst is this amber alert from delaware. the search for eleanor trotter. police say the girl's mom called the authorities to report her ex-boyfriend michael trotta attacked her at her new castle home and then took their 3-year-old daughter. investigators say the car they believe he was driving was found a short distance away so police think he's now driving a red suv, possibly a ford explorer. his last known location was area of mt. laurel, burlington county and breaking news out of delaware county where police are investigating after a child was hit by a car at main and north fourth in darbyboro. we're working to find out the condition of the child and the circumstances of that accident. >>> we've just gotten this update from the scene of this building fire on north front street in kensington in philadelphia. the fire is now under control, but it is not completely out just yet. the executive fire chief says the single-digit temperatures caused ice to form quickly, and some fire hydrant

he's got a lot of the arena rock bruce springsteen in him. he's never been a back corridor kind of guy where the dynasties inherently are. >> let's talk about the irs for a moment. because you may recall there was a scandal about the irs and that they were targeting tea party groups for extra scrutiny. now it seems to have actually gone further. because lois lerner the congress had wanted lois lerner's emails. whoops those were lost. >> the dog ate my hard drive. >> it turns out that investigators, inspector general says we think that you have hidden them somewhere and we think there could be some sort of criminal activity. >> that is a whole different ball game. i mean obviously these have been actively hidden. >> prom for obama? >> problem for the administration and it depends on whether there's any evidence of collusion, there's a huge if. >> but also the president came out and defended them immediately and so all of this has become probably unnecessarily partisan. can i tell you a funny story? i went by the irs on the way to pac yesterday

. >> you haven't had bruce springsteen. >> the tour tickets go on sale for $20. >> yes, ma'am. >> stick a deadly house fire in sunnyvale. fire crews got the call at a home on fisher hawk drive. firefighters say an elderly man died in the fire. according to neighbors. only one person lived in the home, but the victim has not been identified yet. >> we're following a developing story from southern california. that's where a crowded commuter train struck a big rig sending cars flying off of the tracks. four cars in fact. it happened before 6:00 this morning in oxnard. no reports of fatalities but at least 30 people are injured. we have learned the truck driver initially lost the scene but police caught up with him a short time later. we'll be following this all morning long. >>> from nbc news this is "today"'s take with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall live from studio 1a rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today" on a very very chilly tuesday morning. february 24th 2015. plaza temperature, as you can see on the monster outside, 6 degrees here in new york city. i'm wil