. >> the man in the video is brian thomas masters, he is a safari guide and come forward and apologized for his actions saying this cost him his reputation and job and undone all the work he has done in elephant research over the last 13 years and the lodge is investigating other that is may have been involved in this incident. >> don't ever drink and go on safari. >>> i don't think beth is going to need the gag bag this time. i think it will be me. >> chocolate octopus. >> i give you the choco shoo hc >> the alcoholic -- he is coating it chocolate and a stick in it and he will eat it. >> he doesn't look like he knows what he is doing. it is like flopping that and egg in there and mixes it up. there will be people that argue that chocolate makes everything better. you put chocolate on really anything and it will take like a chocolate covered whatever. >> it would be chewy chocolate, like chocolate covered chew heness. >> seafood does not go have chocolate. >> or ants or grasshoppers. >> yeah. >> or the first time they put it on popcorn, like chocolate doesn't go with popcorn, and, boom,

but we will be back to thomas, chris, and brian.e are also going to be talking to congressman tom cole who is going to join us. he grew up in the town devastated by monday's tornado. also fema administrator craig fugate will be here and steve case will be around as well and helping lead a so-called virtual march for immigration reform. >>> coming up next, so many political stories to talk about. we have abc news cokie roberts who is going to be joining the conversation and we will be talking about the irs and much more straight ahead. ♪ it's a brand new start. your chance to rise and shine. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you can do just that. with our visionary cloud infrastructure, global broadband network and custom communications solutions, your business is more reliable - secure - agile. and with responsive, dedicated support, we help you shine every day of the week. ♪ >>> welcome back to "morning joe." with us now abc news political commentator cokie roberts. we also have "morning joe" economic analyst ste

brian, your ge is your top pick. why? >> over a hundred years ago, ge was formed by jpmorgan himself and thomas edison.was one of the ten biggs companies back then. it's still one of the ten biggest companies. they have over 200 major product lines. but i think the main reason why they're going to be around is that technology was the last great industry. the next great industry is going to be renewable energy. and so they're a leader in renewable energy, along with all different kinds of, you know, financing and consumer goods and transportation. all of these industries are going to lead it to be around another hundred years from now, just like they were a hundred years ago. >> all right. lady, you say it's j&j, that is the stock of this century. how come? >> well, i mean, i think that, first of all, it's kind of ridiculous to think a hundred years from now, but when you think about band-aids and shampoo, johnson & johnson is a company that makes a ton of profit from the emerging markets, just basically selling everyday stuff. you take a look at ibm, ibm has said several times that they almost bit the

>>brian: a retired diplomat who helped investigate the state department's reece responsible to benghazi and -- response to benghazi agreed to talk to lawmakers on capitol hill. i'm talking about thomas pickering. gabriel schoenfeld has an e book out called "bad day in the romney campaign." welcome. now everyone is interested. you guys did not push to get the truth out about benghazi in a big way. why? what was the point that made you guys back off? >> on september 11, 2012, the romney campaign jumped the gun, put out a statement attacking the obama administration before they had the facts in. the statement was riddled with errors. after that romney was gun shy about raising this issue and it was a crucial issue in the debate. four americans were dead, obama was responsible. yet he was reluctant to raise it because his own staff made it into a political issue when it was actually a national security issue ripe for discussion, ripe for holding the president responsible. >>brian: did they release that statement condemning the president's lack of action early on without him knowing it? >> they gave it to him at the end of a long day. he just got off of a flight. it had multiple problems

brian: interesting comeback. >> steve: to find out where his job is in this news capsule. >> gretchen: leaders of the panel that first investigated the terrorist attack in benghazi now offering a to testify. diplomat thomasjoint chiefs chair mike mullen have come under fire for failing to interview key witnesses. they headed up the accountability review board and admitted they didn't feel the need to interview then secretary of state hillary clinton. their findings cleared her of wrongdoing. donald rumsfeld now speaking out about the scandal and still shocked the obama administration ever blamed that videotape. >> i can't imagine how a person could stand up there when everyone involved knew it was a terrorist attack. it was the anniversary of 9-11. the people were not demonstrator s. they were well armed. >> gretchen: ambassador susan rice went on five sunday talk shows and blamed the videotape. >>> o. j. simpson expected to testify today. this after getting a hand during his second day in court instead of being fully restrained. the judge has agreed now to allow him to have one hand free so that he can take notes and drink some water. simpson claims his lawyers botched his defense in the 2008 vegas arme

know, brian, this morning you can see from 10,000 feet the devastation in the neighborhood, the devastation in the community. but what makes this tornado worse than any others that i've seen or thomaseen or others that have grown up in this area and, again, we still have lightning blasting all across the sky is just, again, how the scale of it. the widespread destruction, the fact that this thing was -- this monster as a local paper called it was a mile wide. >> right. >> the debris path estimated to be 2 miles wide. and everything in its path was absolutely destroyed. and, unfortunately, mika, as we heard when we were -- when we heard reports coming out of the school hoping for the best news. but there are some people that grew up around here that just said that some of those kids had absolutely no chance. winds up to 200 miles an hour, and, again, a path of destruction a mile wide. >> just quickly -- >> when you look at what happened here, brian, it's like it is so clear that it happened so fast that no one had any chance. no one. and it's amazing the survival stories that we've already heard. brian? >> and you see on the top right of your screen, you see an "x" on the car, that