and a one of a kind guitar used by coldplay's chris martin. good titles. >>> and finally, nbc's "go on" is giving "friends" fans a little reunion tonight. take a look. >> actually, we both cry. i start crying. then he cries. >> i don't cry that much. >> yeah, you do. it's nonstop. >> i hardly ever cry. >> i like a sensitive guy. >> i cry all the time. i'm almost always crying. that's me, a sensitive crier who drives a porsche. >> i'm richard lui. you're watching "early today," just your first stop of the day on your nbc station. >>> leading the news on "politico," cultural wars return with a twist. and that twist being that the left picks the fights and mostly enjoys being on the right side of public opinion. >>> and in "usa today," forest service braces for bad wildfire season amid cuts with drought and tree-killing insects make many americans very nervous as wildfire season approaches. >>> and the tsunami-ravaged area of northern japan smiles maybe few and far between, but volunteers gather to break a world record. see what they're doing the

and a one of a kind guitar used by coldplay's chris martin. >>> nbc's go on is giving friends fans a little baste reunion tonight. >> actually, we both cry. i start crying and then he cries. >> i don't cry that much. >> why you do. it's nonstop. >> i hardly ever cry. >> i like a sensitive guy. >> i cry all the time. a sensitive cryer who drives a porsche. >>> for the first time in 29 months, tiger woods is ranked number one in the world today after winning the arnold palmer invitational in orlando. to congratulate tiger, nike posted this on their facebook page. it says winning takes care of everything. except for that ridiculous goatee and mustache. i'm pretty sure lawyers take care of everything in tiger woods' case. >> they must have done a good job because he's playing well. i'm bill karins. this is "way too early." we have a lot of news to talk about on this tuesday, march 26th. including overseas marathon for secretary of state john kerry. what america's top diplomat had to say about hamid karzai's sometimes, maybe always, erratic behavior. >>> plus, you hear about this? a briti

somebody is over weight, tall, short or has high blood pressure that doesn't mean an employer cannot chris martin- discriminate. >> with this next story we thought of you, karen. it's about strippers. >> thank you, don. >> we'll get to why we thought about you. sometimes they have to pay club owns for access to the stage. we thought of you because you represented a chicago club in a case like this. why should the government care if someone is making more than minimum wage? >> the law says if you are an employee rather than an independent contractor you get certain benefits, taxes are deducted, there are minimum wage laws, et cetera. if they are an independent contractor the rules don't apply. a lot of the girls are paying to dance there. when they get tips testify to tip out bartenders and the like. they have a vested interest in not classifying them as employees. but they are probably employees. as long as the employer has some control over their hours, what they wear, how they do their job they are employees. these girls probably have a good lawsuit. >> that didn't come out right. the stripper

married to coldplay's chris martin and mom to apple and moses. but gwyneth paltrow is hitting a sour note with her latest designer fashion tips, with critics calling her annual spring edit must-haves a bit out of reach. gwyneth paltrow is supremely out of touch with the life of most women. rsht on her website, goop, paltrow tells readers to find inspiration for outfits for all aspects of your busy life, using her laundry list of the hottest trends. the price tag for the entire lot? nearly $500,000. in this photo, paltrow models a few of her own picks. the tab for this head-to-toe outfit, from ipad case to red leather jacket, $4,000. >> by showing a $7,000 cuff or a $6,000 clutch so that can you use to walk the kids to school, maybe somehow she thinks that's inspirational. but i think most women would just find it depressing. >> reporter: actress jessica alba, who is promoting her own look and lifestyle tips wasn't impressed either, describing her venture like goop but for you and me. >> i'm not surprised jessica alba has spoken out about the diff

. >> escorted by officer chris st. martin there you go. safe and sound. want my chair? take the big black one. sit down. sit down. there you go. >> though returning to the cellblock was difficult, talley told us it was also cathartic. >> yeah, i was down for a while. but i'm not dead. they didn't kill me. i'm okay. emotionally, i'll heal some day. and the sleepless nights and the worry and the wonder, "oh, my god, is this ever going to happen to me again?" i've dealt with most of that and it's really a hard thing. >>> next, on "lockup: raw," an inmate turns violent against himself. >> i swear i'll break my neck [ bleep ]. yeah, i love pain! yeah, yeah! >> etters, stop. [ bleep ] >>> violence inside and every day since, we've worked hard to keep it. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help people and businesses who were affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy -- and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. we've shared what we've learned

. >> chris martin with access partnership. were consultancy firm.in terms of either validating infringing, is that something you look forward to see that there are no more ip address itself not being used again and again from the validation side? and a broader question is do it for much except success, it seems each isp is going to run about in terms of what types of pressure to put on the users. do you envision trying to identify which ones are more successful over the course of the time? and perhaps honing the program to a set of best practices in that space on the side? thinks. >> let me answer the first question. embedded in your question is this notion that some continuing monitoring of a particular account or ip address. the system doesn't work that way. it works as mary ann described incident by incident. so if a user gets a second request, it is because the scanning vendor is looking for probably another title, the same ip address emerged in the same process has gone through to identify which isp went with the address on the alert was genera

the church is going in, and certainly american catholics are watching this very closely, martin. >> msnbc's chrissing politics and theology. thank you so much, chris. >>> next, paul ryan and president obama can agree on one thing. health care costs are crippling america. so why the outcry when a mayor wants to better public health? >>> first, mary thompson has cnbc market wrap. >> good afternoon to you, martin. a historic day on wall street. here's a look at how stocks stand going into tomorrow. the dow managed to eke out a very small gain of 30 points to yesterday another record close of 14,4450. s&p dropping 3.75. and the nasdaq dropping just about 11. we'll be back with more in a moment. gs -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td

facility in atlanta, by the end of the year we're probably going to have six total but you know, chris martins hospitals so we're excited to launch this today. >> ryan seacrest doing a world of good there, thanks so much, ryan, at the children's hospital of orange county, thank you. >> thank you for having me, we'll see you soon. >> you got it, have a great show. we'll be listening. >>> and coming up on "frugal friday" cutting costs when it comes to your pets, but first these messages. [ male announcer ] this is bob, a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't think so. [ male announcer ] for years, bob took warfarin, and made a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but not anymore. bob's doctor recommended a different option: once-a-day xarelto®. xarelto® is the first and only once-a-day prescription blood thinner for patients with afib not caused by a heart valve problem, that does

our team this morning, roland martin is back with us, he's a cnn contributor. chris for national journal and joe solomonese is joining us for the first time. formerly director of the human rights campaign. nice to have you with us. new information on the breaking news story about amanda knox. we were talking about that yesterday with her attorney. after an italian court ruled that she could be retried in the death of her roommate in perugia, italy. the big question this morning is could she be forced to go back in order to stand trial. foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is at the state department for us this morning. good morning. >> hey, soledad. it's a complicated question. as a lot of legal questions are. and you can bet that lawyers here at the state department are looking at this anticipating what might happen. but all of it is governed by this agreement, an extradition treaty between the united states and italy that was signed in 1984. and as in most legal things you have to look at the fine print. amanda knox has been back in seattle for a year and a

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martin bashir will be back on monday. chris matthews picks things up right now. >>> wedding of the year, republicans and the nra. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. i hope you're having a meaningful good friday and will have a bright and glorious easter sunday. now, get this. the republican party says that marriage consists of one man marrying one woman. how do you explain, or we explain what just happened? five of its men, ted cruz, rand paul, mike lee, marco rubio and jim inhofe just married wayne lapierre. in sickness and in health, until death do us part. not even that. these five buckaroos won't let the senate vote on a gun safety measures, not even one dealing with better background checks. the hardliners calls it surveillance and want none of it. this is one area where they believe in the right of privacy, darn it, believe in the government's right to fknow what's going on inside a woman's body, of course, but don't ask if some gun buyer is a nut, a criminal or wife beater. that's

martin. >> thanks so much to you for watching on a historic day. chris matthews, of course, will pick things up right now. >>> hope for the pope. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the election of a new pope. it brings with it a great hope and not just for catholics. it pro promises a progressive church. he's a jesuit. living in a small apartment. taking the bus to work. the new pope has said things about capitalism and its failure to deliver economic justice that could drive the right wing nuts. he's the living illustration for what i've learned of the belief free markets need to be offset by an active social justice toward those in need. h is the catholic church that looks out for the poor, that distances itself from power and wealth, that is skeptical that capitalism will raise all. that the poor can count on the wealth of the rich to trickle down to the people living in the barrios. big surprise in rome tonight. the cardinals picked a jesuit. someone from the americas. someone who iden

martin fletcher, good to she you both. thanks, guys. >>> in this week's office politics i talk with msnbc's chris hayes, host of "up" which starts in aboute're going to have to explain all the noise in chris' office. i cannot believe he can get any work down in there. we're going to get to that at the end of 9 piece. but i began by asking chris about the president's priorities during this week's trip to the middle east. >> i think the most critical thing is essentially the reprioritization of the peace process, such as it is. which it -- there is no peace process right now. so, the first thing i think is communicating that america does not think the status quo is tenable or sustainable. and i think that out of the gate there were messages sent from the white house to that effect towards both parties, palestinians and israelis. and i think what ended up happening was the president lost a few squirmishes, particularly with the netanyahu government or things like settlement freeze. and it was a little like touching a hot stove. which is that they just kind of walked away. >> with regard to iran, where there seemed to be no easy answers what

martin o'malley who tweeted this photo, saying quote, wearing red today for marriage equality in maryland we believe in the dignity of every individual. one of my favorite tweets came from the democratic senator, chriswho tweeted . . . love that. joining me now to break down the politics of same-sex marriage is karl frisch, who comes to us from washington, d.c. where he is part of the bullfight strategies. karl welcome back. >> thanks, michael. how are you? >> i'm great. this is important stuff we're watching. >> it is sure is. >> michael: jay carney said this today when asked to predict how the supreme court would rule. take a listen. >> i -- i think we have seen in recent history there's ample reason to be cautious about predicting outcomes in supreme court cases based on any particular piece of the puzzle in this case oral arguments. >> michael: well this that's not decisive, if that's not an answer, i don't know what is. wow. so the overwhelming amount of support for same-sex message is generating the optimism is the amount of support overblown? are democrats getting their hopes up too much karl? >> we might be getting our hopes up too much, but i don't think the amount of support is overblown.

martin o'malley. it points to the fact this this has become something that is really taken fire. but i guess i go back to the question i just asked chris. does it take fire to the point where people vote on this? >> i think the question was does it matter to young people. it's not that it matters that they're opposed to people who support day marriagay marriage,s that gay marriage has become a litmus test, not just for gay voters, but i have teenage daughter's, this is their litmus test to know whether a candidate shares their values. >> do they throw their hands up and don't get it? they don't get what the debate is about? >> i think they're actually -- i shouldn't probably speak for them because i will really get in mommy trouble, it's spring break and they're still sleeping, so i'm safe. girls, get up. i think they find it actually maddening that anybody -- that they have gay friends, they have friends who have gay parents. it's just a no-brainer for them. for most -- they're not out of the mainstream. 81% support among people under 30, majority support among republicans under age 49, times are changing. >> they are, indeed. the fir